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ROBERTO MATTA Dibujo #1.
Charcoal with black ink on cream laid paper mounted on card, circa 1960. 483x648 mm; 19x25 1/2 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto. Ex-collection Lefebre Gallery, New York.
Exhibited "Drawing International," The American Federation of Arts, New York, October 1961-October 1962, number 61; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with the labels on the frame back.
Matta (1911-2002) was born in Santiago, where he studied design and architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Following his studies, while on military service in Europe, he encountered Surrealism and participated in the dialogue established by artists such as Salvador Dalí and Yves Tanguy. He immigrated to the United States in 1939, where he delved deeper into Surrealism and automatism. Matta's practice influenced the emergent New York School, particularly artists like Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, though he returned to Paris as abstraction overtook figuration. His spatial experiments, like the current work, played in the space between pure abstraction and realism favored by many Surrealist painters. He maintained this expressive, dream-like style through his long career.
