Untitled

1938/39

Matta
Chilean, 1911-2002

Status: On View, Gallery 397
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Matta
Title: Untitled
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.: 1938–1939
Medium: Crayon and graphite, with smudging and erasing, on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed, verso, upper left: "Reg. 36"
Dimensions: 40 × 65 cm (15 3/4 × 25 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
Reference Number: 2018.338
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Art International 5 (Dec. 1961), p. 16 (ill.).
Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 186-87, cat. 92 (color ill.).

New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, “Twentieth-Century Master Drawings and Watercolors” 1961, no cat.
University of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, “Matta,” 1963, cat. 16.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections,” 1984–1985, p. 95, fig. 3, and p. 188.

Peter Watson [a letter of Nov. 22, 1961, from Robert Elkon to Edwin Bergman]. Sold by Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1962; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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