YO + U

Modern Art

1949

Roberto Matta
Chilean, 1911–2002

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Matta
Title: YO + U
Place: Chile (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1949
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: unsigned
Dimensions: 125.1 × 147.3 cm (49 1/4 × 58 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Society for Contemporary American Art
Reference Number: 1951.71
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Painting in the United States, 1949, exh. cat. (Carnegie Institute, 1949), cat. 280.
Charles C. Cunningham, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: a catalogue of the picture collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 306.
Charles C. Cunningham, Instituto de arte de Chicago, Mundo de los museos (Editorial Codex, 1967), pp. 15 (ill.), 75 (color ill.).

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Painting in the United States, 1949, Oct. 13–Dec. 11, 1949, cat. 280.
Art Institute of Chicago, Society for Contemporary American Art 1951 Annual Exhibition, Apr. 10–May 6, 1951.

Sold through the Pierre Matisse Gallery to the Society for Contemporary American Art, Chicago, May 18, 1951; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1951.

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