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Untitled, 1937 "Au prince"

Roberto Matta  (Chilean, Santiago 1911–2002 Civtavecchia, Italy)

Date:
1937
Medium:
Crayon, ink, and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
9 1/2 x 12 1/4 in. (24.1 x 31.1 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection, 2002
Accession Number:
2002.456.51
Rights and Reproduction:
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

This artwork is not on display

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Signed, inscribed, and dated, lower right: Matta / Au prince / 37 [CHF Jan 28, 2008]

  • Provenance

    Likely Patricia O'Connell Kane (1923-1972), first married to the painter Matta Echaurren, later Mrs. Pierre Matisse (until her d. 1972); Pierre Matisse, New York (likely from his wife, 1972 - until his d.1989); his widow, Maria-Gaetana Matisse, née von Spreti, New York (1989 - her d. 2001); Pierre and Maria Gaetana Matisse Foundation (2002; gift to MMA).

  • Exhibition History

    "Matta," Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, October 3-December 16, 1985, exh. cat. by Alain Sayag, with essays by Dominique Bozo, Octavio Paz, William Rubinm Gordon Onslow-Ford, Romy Golan, Alain Jouffroy, and Jean-Philippe Domecq, no. 5, ill. p. 86 (as Sans titre, 1937, PMG, NY);

    "Italia Matta - Matta in Italia," Palazzo Venezia, Rome, March 17-April 24, 1988, exh. cat by Nicola Signorello, Giuliano Briganti, Luisa Laureati, Claudia Terenzi, & Alain Sayag, p. [83], no. I (in Drawings section, as Senza titolo, 1937, coll. privata, NY);

    "Matta: Zeichnungen 1937-1988," Museum Bochum, June 11-July 31, 1988, exh. cat. with essays by Sepp Hiekisch-Picard, Peter Spielmann, and Alain Sayag, no. 2, ill.;

    "La Colección Pierre & Maria-Gaetana Matisse en The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York / The Pierre & Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," Museo Picasso, Malaga, March 26-June 24, 2007, exh. cat. edited by Bernardo Laniado-Romero, texts by Pierre Schneider and Jonathan Pascoe Pratt, ill. p. 146, no. 45, pp. 191, 192.

  • References

    Martica Sawin, "Prolegomena to a Study of Matta" (review of Pompidou 1985), Arts (December 1985), ill. p. 32;

    Germana Ferrari Matta, ed. Matta: Entretiens morphologiques. Notebook No. 1, 1936-1944 (London 1987), vol. 1 (of four), with essays by René Magritte, William Rubin, Julien lévy, Lionel Abel, Sidney Janis, James Johnson Sweeney, Martica Sawin, William Copley, Robert Lebel, and Jimmy Ernst, pp. 41 (ill.), 261-262.

    Sabine Rewald in The American Matisse: The Dealer, His Artists, His Collection. The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection (New York, 2009), pp. 119-20, 164, ill.

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