Matta's 1945-46 art
Extremely prolific and creative during the postwar period, Matta often painted alien beings involved in various unexplainable activities.
1945
"Le poète (Un poète de notre connaissance)"
1945 (45/1)
94 x 76.5 cm.
"La femme affamée"
1945 (45/2)
91.4 x 76.2 cm.
private collection, La Jolla, Calif.
"Être avec"
1945 (45/11)
220 x 457.5 cm.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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"The Remainer"
1945
111.8 x 81.3 cm.
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
"Langue aux chats"
1945
96.2 x 76.2 cm.
New York
"Abstracto"
ca. 1945?
92 x 76.2 cm.
"Hand Holding Transparent Seashell"
1945
46.4 x 29.8 cm.
"X-Space and the Ego"
1945
202.2 x 457.2 cm.
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
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"X-Space and the Ego"
with a fan
photo taken July 2004 by Phil Baledent
"The Heart Players"
(b&w photo)
1945
195.6 x 251.5 cm.
private collection, Santa Barbara, Calif.
"Rêve ou Morte"
(b&w photo)
1945
60 x 130 cm.
"L'octrui en famille"
ca. 1945
color pencil and graphite on paper
29.4 x 36.7 cm.
untitled
1945
colored pastels on black paper
24.4 x 30.2 cm.
private collection, La Jolla
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untitled
1945
colored pastels on black paper
24.4 x 30.2 cm.
private collection, La Jolla
"Lettre sur la bombe atomique"
1945
colored pastels on black paper
36 x 48.2 cm.
was used as a maquette for the cover of
a 1945 book by Denis de Rougemont
1946
untitled
ca. 1946
114 x 146 cm.
untitled
ca. 1946
114 x 146 cm.
"L'Ecclectrician"
1945-6
139.7 x 195.6 cm.
"Le Pélerin du doute"
1946 (46/4)
195.6 x 251.5 cm.
private collection, New York
"The Ego and the I"
1946 (46/11)
80.5 x 101 cm.
private collection, Geneva
"Splitting the Ergo"
1946
196.8 x 243.8 cm.
private collection, Meriden
"Jittering the Feelings"
1946
96.5 x 83.8 cm.
private collection, New York
"It's a Pity"
1946
101 x 82.2 cm.
New York
"Funferal"
1946
101.6 x 152 cm.
New York
"A Grave Situation"
1946
137.2 x 195.6 cm.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"untitled (Prime Ordeal)"
1946
136 x 191 cm.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Figure Studies"
1946
crayon and graphite on paper
"Por una bicicleta"
1946 (D 46/41)
50.2 x 36.8 cm.
crayon and graphite on paper
Four Drawings
1946 (D 46/43)
width 17.8 cm. each
crayon and graphite on paper
untitled
1946
crayon and graphite on paper
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