12/04/2009

Matta (Chilean 1911-2002)
Sketch-Etude au temps du "Le forçat de la lumière"
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • $338,500
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    $200,000 - $300,000


Sale Information

Sale 2222
Latin American Sale
17 - 18 November 2009
New York, Rockefeller Plaza

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Lot Description

Matta (Chilean 1911-2002)
Sketch-Etude au temps du "Le forçat de la lumière"
signed and dated 'oui est moi, Matta, NY 1942' and inscribed 'sketch-study, au temps du "le forçat de la lumière" (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
20 x 25 in. (50.8 x 63.5 cm.)
Painted in 1942.

Pre-Lot Text

PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION

Provenance

Leo Robinson, New York.
James Thrall Soby collection, New York.
Alexander Iolas, New York.
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Acquavella Gallery, New York.

Literature

G. Ferrari, ed., Matta, Entretiens morphologiques - Notebook No. 1, 1936-1944, London, 1987, p. 240 (illustrated in color).
Exhibition catalogue, Matta, Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung and Vienna, Kunsthaus, 1991, no. 5 (illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Masson et Matta. Les Deux Univers, Yokohama, Yokohama Museum of Art, 1994, no. 5 (illustrated in color).

Exhibited

Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung and Vienna, Kunsthaus, Matta, September 1991- February 1992, no. 5.
Yokohama, Yokohama Museum of Art, Masson et Matta. Les Deux Univers, April-June 1994, no. 5.

Lot Notes

This work is sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by Germana Matta Ferrari and dated 24 September 2009.

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