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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 4, 2015 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 101 | $****** - ****** | The Red Sun |
Works on Paper
50 x 65 cm (19.69 x 25.59 in)
colored crayon and pencil on paper
signed 'matta' (lower right)
Gordon Onslow-Ford, Inverness, California, by whom acquired directly from the artist circa 1938.Gordon Max Onslow-Ford Trust, Inverness, California, by 2003.The Lucid Art Foundation, Inverness, California, a gift from the above in 2004.
Los Angeles, Latin American Masters, Roberto Matta, Paintings and Drawings 1937-1959, April - May 1997; this exhibition later travelled to Mexico, Galería Lopez Quiroga, June - July 1997.Barcelona, Fundació Caixa de Catalunya, Matta, January - April 1999, p. 169 (illustrated p. 63); this exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, April - June 1999.Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s, September 2001 - January 2002, p. 81 (illustrated p. 41); this exhibition later travelled to Miami, Art Museum, March - June 2002; and Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, July - October 2002. Nassau, County Museum of Art, Surrealism: Dreams on Canvas, May - August 2007. Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Drifts and Derivations: Experiences, Journeys and Morphologies, May - August 2010, p. 206 (illustrated).
G. Onslow-Ford, Creation, Basel, 1978, p. 42 (illustrated p. 43). W. Wilson, 'Matta's Genius Is Revealed in "Paintings and Drawings"', in Los Angeles Times, 9 May 1997.
