1394013

Roberto Matta Aquatint Etching, Landru 1974 #1394013

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Roberto Matta Aquatint Etching, Landru 1974 #1394013
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Artist: Roberto Matta

Title: Landru

Year: 1974

Medium: Aquatint Etching on Arches paper [Signed and Numbered in Pencil]

Edition: 100, XXV H.C.

Paper Size: 15" x 19.5" (image)

Frame: 25" x 28"





Published by Editions Galerie Arenthon, Paris
Printer: Atelier Georges Visat, Paris


Reference # 405; page 150, "L'oeuvre Grave de Matta"




Roberto Antonio Sebastián Matta Echaurren was born on November 11, 1911 in Santiago, Chile. Matta was educated in his native country as an architect and interior designer at the Sacré Coeur Jesuit




College and at the Catholic University of Santiago, from 1929-31. In 1933 he became a Merchant Marine which enabled him to leave Santiago and travel to Europe. From 1933-34 he worked in Paris as an atelier for famed-architect Lecorbusier. At the end of 1934 Matta visited Spain, where he met the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, who through a letter, introduced young Roberto to Salvador Dalí. Dali inturn encouraged Matta to show some of his drawings to Andre Breton.



Matta's acquaintance with Dali and Breton strongly influenced his artistic formation and subsequently connected him to the Surrealist movement, which he officially joined in 1937. He was in London for a
short period in 1936 and worked with Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy. Matta's employment with the architects of the Spanish Republican pavilion at the Paris International Exhibition (1937)
exposed him to Picasso's Guernica ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1974</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:25</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:28</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Roberto Matta Aquatint Etching, Landru 1974</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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