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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 22, 2016 | Artcurial | Paris | Le regard de Pierre Hebey - Les passions modérées - Art Moderne - Post-War & Contemporain | 11 | $****** - ****** | Morphologie psychologique de l'angoisse (La veille de la mort) | |||
Mar 27, 2012 | Camard Associes | Paris | Sculptures, Objets d'Art, Tableaux Modernes | 61 | Estimates not disclosed | Eve of the death [Veille de la mort] |
paintings
73 x 92 cm (28.74 x 36.22 in)
oil on canvas
Gordon Onslow Ford, California, by whom acquired directly from the artist.
San Francisco Museum of Art, on long term loan from the above, from 26 September 1958 until at least 17 April 1978.
Gordon Onslow Ford, California; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1986, lot 23.
Geneviève & Pierre Hebey, Paris; their sale, Artcurial, Paris, 22 February 2016, lot 11.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States, February - March 1944; this exhibition later travelled to Denver, Denver Art Museum, March - April 1944; Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, May - June 1944; Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, June - July 1944; and San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, July 1944.
Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Au Rendez-vous des Amis...de Pierre Hebey, September - November 1990, p. 52 (illustrated p. 53).
Paris, Galerie de France.
Paris, Galerie Malingue, Matta, 1935-1944: Début d'un nouveau monde, May - July 2004, p. 22 (illustrated p. 23).
G. Onslow Ford, Création, Basel, 1978, p. 20 (illustrated p. 21).
J. Pierre, 'Le peintre surréaliste par excellence', in exh. cat., Tanguy, Paris, 1982, p. 58.
G. Onslow Ford, 'Notes sur Matta et la peinture (1937- 1941)', in exh. cat., Matta, Paris, 1985, p. 28 (illustrated).
G. Ferrari, Entretiens morphologiques- Notebook No. 1, 1936-1944, London, 1987, pp. 72 & 262 (illustrated p. 72).
M. Nédélec, 'Matta, Le non-peintre de l'être-à-tout', in exh. cat., Matta, du surréalisme à l'histoire, Marseille, 2013, p. 172.
P. Lismonde, 'Matta, il faut léonarder', in art absolument, no. 52, Paris, March - April 2013, p. 70.
M. Ahmed, 'Generating New Epistemological Coordinates: Roberto Matta's Open Cubes as Meta- Images', Meta-and Inter-Images in Contemporary Visual Art and Culture, Leuven, 2013, p. 250 (dated '1939').
B. de Rochebouët, 'Pierre and Geneviève Hebey: an extraordinary collection', in Le Figaro, 31 January 2012 (illustrated).
oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. (73 x 92 cm.)
Painted in 1938
