1140701

Roberto Matta S/N Etching, Centre Neouds #1140701

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Roberto Matta S/N Etching, Centre Neouds  #1140701
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Artist: Roberto Matta

Portfolio: Centre Neouds

Title: untitled (Planche 1)

Year: 1974

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

Edition: 71/125

Paper Size: 24" x 17.5" ; 14" x 10.5" (Image)





Published by Editions George Visat, Parigi and Alexander Kahan, NY
Reference: Figure 393 in "L'Oeuvre Grave de Matta" by George Visat, published by Editions Sonnet





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 ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1974</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:24</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:17.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Roberto Matta S/N Etching, Centre Neouds </td></tr>



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