Matta graphics works

Matta created hundreds of lithographs and aquatint etchings.   Here are a few, including some from my own collection.


"Le Pianiste"
1956   50 x 31.5 cm.


"The Moon Shoker"
1960   36.5 x 48.5 cm.


"Jazz Bande"
1973   37.5 x 49.5 cm.


"Pyrocentre"
1980   62 x 57 cm.


"N'ou's T'ou's"
1995   118 x 127 cm.

The next five etchings are "Carborundum" etchings, thick textured pigment applied to handmade paper.
Matta created several etchings in this style during the 1990s.

"Etoile des Jardins"
101.6 x 101.6 cm.


"L'oeuf de verbe voir"


"Melodia-Melodio"
1995   109.2 x 88.5 cm.


"New-View"
1996   111.7 x 101.6 cm.


  "Redness of Blue"
1996   111.7 x 101.6 cm.

A few of the pieces in my own Matta collection:

"I Want to See it to Believe it",   (ref: Visat)
alt. title "Strange Situation (Cube ouvert)",   (ref: Silkeborg)
1947   41.7 x 33.2 cm.


Plate I from "Les Damnations"
1966   34.5 x 26 cm.


Plate 4 from the suite "Hom'mere (Chaosmos)"
1973   49 x 37.5 cm.

"Ouvre L'Instant"
1977   62 x 57 cm.
Click for a closeup of this etching.

"Viteurs", plate 10 from the suite "Hom'mere III (L'Ergonaute)"
1977   51.4 x 37.1 cm.


plate #3 from 4-part suite "Bachanal",   1984

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