Artist: Roberto Matta (1911 - )
Nationality: South American
Movement: Surrealism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
After studying architecture in his hometown of Santiago, Chile, Roberto Sebastian Matta Echaurren traveled to Paris to train under Le Corbusier. He began painting in the Surrealist style in 1937, and was a leading figure of the movement. His debut came at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1940, shortly after Matta moved to the United States. His distinctive interpretation of Surrealism and random painting technique influenced later generations of Abstract Expressionists such as Pollock and Gorky.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Matta (Roberto SÈbastian Antonio Echaurren Matta) I Want to See It To Believe It Color lithograph 1947
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Matta (Roberto SÈbastian Antonio Echaurren Matta) Composition Lithograph 20th century
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Matta (Roberto SÈbastian Antonio Echaurren Matta) The Mooner Color etching 1959
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Untitled, Matta [Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren] (Chile, Santiago, 1911-11-11 - 2002-11-23) , 1948, Colored chalks
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Untitled, Matta [Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren] (Chile, Santiago, 1911-11-11 - 2002-11-23) , 20th century, Crayon and pencil
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Theory of Nature’s Strategy (Polypsychology), Matta [Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren] (Chile, Santiago, 1911-11-11 - 2002-11-23) , 1939, Crayon
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Untitled (Sin título), Matta [Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren] (Chile, Santiago, 1911-11-11 - 2002-11-23) , 1940, Crayon, pencil, and collage on paper
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Burn, Baby, Burn (L’escalade), Matta [Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren] (Chile, Santiago, 1911-11-11 - 2002-11-23) , 1965-1966, Oil on canvas
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Matta (Roberto SÈbastian Antonio Echaurren Matta) Untitled Composition, Illustration of a Poem by Alain Bosquet Etching and color aquatint 20th century
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Roberto Matta - La Rosa 1943 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Chilean
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Pipes, Gordon Matta-Clark (United States, New York, New York City, 1945 - 1978) , 1971, Metal
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Pipes, Gordon Matta-Clark (United States, New York, New York City, 1945 - 1978) , 1971, Gelatin-silver print
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Pipes, Gordon Matta-Clark (United States, New York, New York City, 1945 - 1978) , 1971, Gelatin-silver print
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Pipes, Gordon Matta-Clark (United States, New York, New York City, 1945 - 1978) , 1971, Gelatin-silver print
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Pipes, Gordon Matta-Clark (United States, New York, New York City, 1945 - 1978) , 1971, 19 gelatin-silver prints mounted onto 3 boards, and pipe
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Untitled (Tree Forms), Gordon Matta-Clark (United States, New York, New York City, 1945 - 1978) , circa 1979, Graphite and felt-tip pen on paper
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Matta - Marathon 1945 pencil and crayon on Hirshhorn Museum French
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Matta - Metamatician 1948 pencil, pastel and w Hirshhorn Museum French
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Matta - Atomic Man 1957 bronze Hirshhorn Museum French
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Matta - Untitled 1947 pencil, crayon Arkansas Arts Center Chilean
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Gordon Matta-Clark - Splitting 1974-75 gelatin silver print Spencer Museum of Art American
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Matta - Let's Phosphoresce Daily 1948 crayon and pencil on Hirshhorn Museum French
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Matta - The Three Worlds (The Clan) 1957 bronze and iron Hirshhorn Museum French
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VVV, Nos. 1 (June 1942)–4 (February 1944) New York: VVV, 1942-1944Serial publication, illustrated; 4 nos.
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Guido Reni - Portrait of Cardinal Roberto Ubaldino, Papal Legate to Bologna 1627 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Italian
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Roberto Werner Bonilla Goldweight with box design brass 20th century
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Arthur Pond [ Profile Study of a man] E Museo Domini Roberto Dingeley 1735
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Roberto Werner Bonilla (one calendar of twelve serigraph images- Enero 1975) screenprint 1975
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Portrait d'homme aux cheveux longs : Orazio Roberto Pucci (1806) by BALDINUCCI Filippo
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative
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Roberto Melli, Sanford H. Roth (United States, 1906 - 1962) , circa 1946-1962, 35mm negative

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (20)
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Museum of Contemporary Art, LA: Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure
Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, the exhibition was on view at the Whitney Museum from February 22, 2007– June 3, 2007 and will be on view at MOCA Grand Aven...
Stedelijk Museum: Mapping the Studio: Artists’ Relationships to Their Working Environments
One of the earliest and most crucial moments in the transformation of the studio are Bruce Nauman’s studio films (1967/1968). Nauman’s work clearly manifests the transfiguration of the studio from mythic ‘sanctuary’ to mundane workshop. A similar ...
Akademie der Kuenste: SPACE. Sites for Art
“SPACE. Sites for Art” is a first attempt to reveal and discuss this situation in the current horizon of the arts and in their interdisciplinary philosophical and motific dimensions. In both of the Academy’s buildings, the exhibition investi...
Hayward Gallery: Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic
Over 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations and films made by artists from the 1920s to the early 1980s have been brought together by the exhibition’s curator Guy Brett. Among the seminal works in the show are Calder’s early mobiles, D...
National Museum of Fine Arts: From Picasso to Keith Haring
The artworks, mostly donated by collectors and artists before and after the Revolution, includes a room dedicated to the US art from the Reagan era, which were donated in 1984 by 50 american artists. It contains among others, an outstanding piece ...
Witte de With Center for Contemportary Art: Occupying Space: Works from the Generali Foundation Collection
Photography, film, video, and installations are amply represented in the collection - the Generali Foundation has in fact been a pioneer in collecting policy involving these media. It holds the largest European collection of videos by artists. Ano...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Art at Midcentury: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The exhibition opens with art by European and Latin American artists such as Max Ernst and Matta, whose work was to play a defining role in shaping the New Yor...
Opera Gallery, Miami: Made in Latin America
Wilfredo Lam, considered to be one of the most important Cuban modernists, was a friend of Picasso's. Lam's unique style is often described as a confluence of Cubism, Surrealism and Primitive art. Legendary in today's art world is Columbian-born ...
Phillips Collection: Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Notably, the Atheneum was the first museum in the world to purchase a painting by Salvador Dalí (1931) and the first American museum to acquire works by surrealist Joan Miró (1934), the Paris-born painter known as Balthus (1938), and American surr...
Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery: Allan Eddy: Lost Sight Is Not Lost Vision
Allan Eddy, an award wining Atlanta College of Art graduate, winning the Forward Arts Foundation Scholarship in 1987, and hailed as the next Kandinsky, Matta or Miró, paints in abstract form. His art hangs in many collections, including Elton Jo...
White Colmns: OUTER BOROUGHS
White Columns consists of an ongoing program of culturally diverse exhibitions and services for visual artists. It is a not-for-profit gallery which is open to the public, free of charge, eleven months per year and presents new exh...
Appleton Museum of Art: 20th Century Masterworks from the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto
Until now, this collection has not been available for loan during the 100-year history of the AGO. Following their exhibition at Appleton, these masterworks will return to Toronto and be re-installed in the AGO permanent collection galleries. The ...
Atelier Grognard: Five Continents Artists Meeting: Cris Orfescu's NanoArt to be Featured
NanoArt is a new art discipline related to the micro or nanosculptures created by artists or/and scientists through chemical or/and physical processes and visualized with powerful research tools like
Erna Hecey Gallery: IN AND AROUND THE HOUSE: Laurie Simmons
Simmons, while sharing strategies with the artists known as the Pictures Generation - Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Louise Lawler and Sarah Charlesworth - and their documentation and appropriation of cultural memory, forged her own identity more ...
National Academy: Surrealism USA: Between 1930 and 1950
One of the most revolutionary artistic and intellectual movements of the twentieth century, Surrealism still exerts a strong appeal today, more than fifty years after its heyday. The profound influence that this world of fantasy and dream had on a...
Sert Gallery, Harvard University Art Museums: Tadashi Kawamata: Boston Project, Plan in Progress
Bringing Kawamata to the Fogg Art Museum to work closely with students, faculty, and curators is a fabulous opportunity for everyone involved. He is a challenging and intelligent artist, well known for his generous collaborations with students. W...
Palau de la Virreina: Banquete:   Metabolism and Communicatión
In this context, banquete has been conceived of as an exploratory and open conversation between art, science, thought and society. A conversation understood as a process in which information and values, experiences, knowledge and meanings flow, mi...
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum: Friedrich Christian Flick Collection
Following the inaugural exhibition, the private collection of around 2,000 works of art, which has been loaned to the Hamburger Bahnhof for a period of seven years, will be gradually shown in its entirety in a series of temporary exhibitions. The ...
Columbus College of Art and Design: OF OTHER SPACES: Bureau for Open Culture
Of Other Spaces will consider the power manifested in the histories, objects, former and current occupants, events, and bygone days associated with different kinds of social spaces. As such, works by participants reveal how places of everyday life...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection

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