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Roberto Matta Signed Art Print Framed

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Roberto Matta Signed Art Print Framed
This Surrealistic scene is full of human drama, with figures distorted in body, and expressive in their interactions. * * * Artist: Roberto Sebastian Matta Signature: "Matta" in pencil, lower rightTitle: UntitledNumber: XIV/L, marked lower leftMedium: Lithograph on paperImage size: 19 x 25 inchesFraming: Matted in light gray, in gold painted wood frameFrame size: 27 1/2 x 33 1/2 inchesCondition: Excellent * * * * Biography: * * Born in Chile, Roberto Sebastian Matta (1911-2002) was a relative latecomer to Surrealism. Originally trained as an architect and interior designer, he left Chile for Paris in 1932 to work as a draftsman in the Paris studio of Le Corbousier. Frederico Garcia Lorca introduced him to Salvador Dali, who encouraged him to show his drawings to Andre Breton. Matta joined the Surrealists in 1937, and his work was included in the international Surrealist exhibit in Paris in 1938. * * * * The artist spent the next eight years in New York, where he became a major influence in American Surrealism and incipient Abstract Expressionism. Matta, in turn, was influenced by what he called the "untamable nature" of America. He met Marcel Duchamp and his imagination was engaged by the often tempestuous relationship between man and machine. He began to create a new imagery based on ancient Mexican symbols to express the dilemma of modern man in a technological world. * * * * Always powerful, always provocative and always fresh, the work of Robert Sebastian Matta continues to astonish, delight and incite the viewer. *