Matta's 1980-82 art
In the '80s Matta entered another prolific period, where his figures became two-dimensional profiles, and mythology abounds as his subject matter.
1980
"My-Thology"
1980 (80/0)
410 x 550 cm.
private collection, Italy
"Il proprio corno mio"
1980 (80/1)
200 x 200 cm.
private collection, Italy
"La nascita d'Ercole"
1980 (80/2)
205 x 197 cm.
"Laocoontare (La guerra delle idee)"
1980
298 x 410 cm.
private collection, Italy
"N'oùs"
1980 (80/22)
66 x 65 cm.
"Les placets de paracelse"
1980 (80/28)
64.5 x 59.2 cm.
"La Follia (Opus 5, Corelli)"
1980 (P 80/19)
pastel on paper
78 x 74.5 cm.
"Duotto"
1980
pastel on paper
101 x 100 cm.
"Bisous"
1980 (D 80/1 and D 80/2)
50 x 16 cm. (each)
private collection, Paris
1981
"El espejo de Cronos"
1981 (81/1)
315 x 495 cm.
"Dopo il fauno"
1981 (81/29)
100 x 100 cm.
"Las Scillabas de Scylla"
1981
188 x 200.7 cm.
"Los centauros del sol"
1981
210 x 285 cm.
"Le complexe des yeux, les deux d'Oedipe"
1981
"Emision du buoc huile sur toil"
1981
210 x 205 cm.
"La faune des phanne"
1981
200 x 300 cm.
"El verbo América"
1981
210 x 303 cm.
"Scacchio"
1981 (P 81/4)
pastel on paper
50 x 70 cm.
"Through the mirror of the mirror"
1981
206 x 301 cm.
1982
"Geomagnética de danza"
1981-82
211 x 304 cm.
"La naissance de l'ômme"
1982 (82/1)
182 x 210 cm.
private collection, Geneva
"El Palacio del sol"
1982
196 x 206.5 cm.
private collection, Geneva
"The Binding of Hera"
1982 (82/13)
200 x 200 cm.
"Lo specchio del centauro"
1982 (82/16)
200 x 200 cm.
"Le je et moi"
1982 (82/17)
203 x 297 cm.
"Ils sexplose"
1982
198 x 300 cm.
private collection, Chicago
"Passo Interno di Mercurio"
1982 (82/21)
70.2 x 64.8 cm.
"Du circle a l'idée"
1982 (82/22)
77 x 69 cm.
"Sentieri ignorati di era"
1982 (82/23)
80 x 74 cm.
"S'unir par les plaisirs"
1982 (82/36)
115 x 103 cm.
"Un jardín de las Espérides"
1982
210 x 201 cm.
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"Fingering Caprice (Homenaje a Paganini)"
1982 (82/52)
88 x 100 cm.
"The Wandering of Leto"
1982 (82/67)
73 x 68 cm.
"Alphomega"
1982
80.5 x 70 cm.
"Art Cadia"
1982
80 x 62 cm.
"Loro de Toro"
1982
72.3 x 68.5 cm.
"The Sign"
1982
76.2 x 68.6 cm.
"Labirintad"
1982
209 x 296 cm.
untitled
1982 (P82/34)
pastel
65.1 x 49.5 cm.
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