Matta's 1955-56 art
In the 1950s Matta's art often depicted paranoid visions of technology run amuck.
1955
"Les découvertes du fouilleur"
1955 (55/2)
"The Bider"
1955 (55/23)
42.3 x 36.1 cm.
"Le long pont"
1955 (55/35)
129 x 153 cm.
Geneva
"Wraparoum"
1955 (55/42)
66 x 76 cm.
private collection, Geneva
"Growth"
1955
66 x 76 cm.
"Spearcing of the Grain"
1955
63.5 x 76.2 cm.
untitled
1955
101.6 x 84.1 cm.
"Turning of the Earth"
1955
141 x 193 cm.
"Youniverse"
1955
114.6 x 145.1 cm.
"To Give Painless Light"
1955
"Attouchement (Contacto)"
1955
141 x 193 cm.
Museo de Bellas Artas, Caracas
"L'engin dans l'éminence"
1955
114.3 x 144.8 cm.
private collection, Chicago
"Tendre mie"
1955
128.3 x 95.3 cm.
"Los Boxeadores"
1955
87 x 115 cm.
Paris
untitled
1955 (P55/7)
74 x 103 cm., fusain and colored pastel on paper
private collection, Milan
untitled
1955
103 x 84.4 cm.
private collection, Caracas
"Copulation"
1955
China ink on paper
27 x 21.5 cm.
untitled
1955 (55/12)
charcoal on paper
74.9 x 53.3 cm.
"Threshold of Love"
1955
116.2 x 149.9 cm.
private collection, San Diego
"Quién es quién"
1955
"Intervision"
1955
129.5 x 195 cm.
collaboration between Matta and Victor Brauner -- Matta painted the figures, Brauner painted the image on the "movie screen"
unknown title
1955
another collaboration between Matta and Victor Brauner
"Positano"
1955
oil and gouache on paper
37 x 41.5 cm.
"To open your arms like you open your eyes"
ca. 1955
gouache and crayon on paper
37.1 x 41.6 cm.
"Blood Mirror"
unknown year
crayon on paper
67.6 x 58.4 cm.
1956
"Personnage"
1956
100 x 100 cm.
"For Gordy"
1956 (56/70)
147 x 208 cm.
untitled
1955-6
114 x 146 cm.
private collection, Caracas
"Realité Nouvelle"
drawing (b&w photo)
1956?
50.7 x 65.4 cm.
"Banale de Venise"
1956
204.5 x 305.5 cm.
Geneva
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"L'Inentrevu"
1956
101.5 x 84 cm.
"Heart Malitte"
1956
114 x 144 cm.
private collection, Chicago
"Phosphoenix"
1956
155 x 200 cm.
"Regard du germe"
1956
144 x 206 cm.
"Evolution d'une cible"
1956
140 x 200 cm.
Berlin
"L'ouverture"
1956
111 x 145 cm.
untitled
1956
63 x 77.5 cm.
untitled
1956
142 x 200 cm.
"Le grand jeu"
1956
114 x 146 cm.
"Fleur de Midi"
1956
101 x 80 cm.
"Branche"
1956
100 x 81 cm.
untitled
ca. 1956
142 x 195.5 cm.
Interior Study
ca. 1956
60.6 x 73.7 cm.
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