Roberto Sebastian Matta *

(Santiago, Chile 1911–2002 Civitavecchia, Italy)
News: northeastwestsouth, c. 1976, oil on canvas, 95 x 90 cm, framed
This work is registered in the Archives de l’ Œuvre de Matta, Tarquinia and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity.

Provenance:
Alexander Iolas, Paris (certificate available)
Galleria Tega, Milan (stamp on the reverse)
Galleria Zodo, Milan
Galleria d'Arte Orler, Favaro Veneto
European Private Collection

"Surrealism's function was to give an image of the real functioning of thinking, without esthetic or moral prejudice. And that picture of Marcel Duchamp in which he implied that he could picture change, that painting which was called, 'Le Passage de la Vierge a la Mariée,' started in me the notion that one can picture change, what happened between A and B in a situation. One had to develop a morphology which would be independent of retinal morphology."

Roberto Sebastian Matta