Roberto Matta Signed Lithograph

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Roberto Antonio Sebastian Matta Echaurren was born on November 11,1911 in Dantiago, Chile. Matta was educated in his native country as an architect and interior designer at the Sacre Coeur Jesuit College and at the Catholic University of Santiago, from 1929-31. In 1933 he became a Merchant Marine which enabled him to leave Santiago and travel to Europe, From 1933-34 he worked in Paris at the atelier of famed architect Le Corbusler. At the end of 1934 Matta visited Spain, where he met the poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, who through a letter,introduced young Roberto to Salvador Dali, Dali in turn encouraged Matta to show some of his drawings to Andre Breton. Matta's acquaintance with Dali and Breton strongly influenced his artistic formation and subsequently connected him to the Surrealist movement, which he officially joined in 1937 He was in London for a short period in 1936 and worked with Walter Groplus and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.Matta's employment with the architects of the Spanish Republican pavilion at the Paris international Exhibition [1937] exposed him to Picasso's Guernica [1937, Madrid, Prado] which greatly impressed him and influenced him in his work. At this time, he was introduced to the work of Marcel Duchamp, whom he met not long after. He later went to Scandinavia where he met the architect Alvar Aalto and then to Russia where he worked on housing design projects. The summer of 1938 marks the evolution of Matta's work from drawing to painting. Roberto completed his first inscape oil paintings while in Brittany and working with Gordon Onslow Ford.Forced to leave Europe with the outbreak of war, Matta arrived in New York in the fall of 1938. In an article by Kathy Zimmerer of Latin American Masters, Beverly Hills, she describes crucifiction [1938] as evolving biomorphic forms that mutate and flow across the surface of the canvas. Matta's work is just fantastic, I could go on and on about him but I just wanted to give you a little information about this wonderful artist. This lithograph is untitled but it is a picture of a Los Angeles lawyer name Mr. Levy my grandmother work for him years ago. and the lithograph is 1/10 was executed by Joyce Wahl Treiman in 1975. This is a beautiful collectors item for any collector.

Item ID: 335154

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