Untitled (1967) by Roberto Matta, via LatinAmericanart.com

Matta: Five Decades of Painting features work from the collections of Federico Matta and Ramuntcho Matta at the PaceWildenstein Gallery in New York City. It is the first major exhibition of the work of Chilean-artist Matta (Real name: Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren) in New York since his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1957. The show is comprised of around fifteen oil paintings from the collections of Matta’s daughter Federica and son Ramuntcho. The works span fifty years of Matta’s career but are heavily weighted toward the end of his life. They nevertheless show Matta’s engagement with the Surrealist Movement.

Exhibition Page: Matta: Five Decades of Painting
Matta: Five Decades of Painting [NYmagazine]
Matta: Five Decades of Painting, Works from the Collections of Federico Matta and Ramuntcho Matto [Artinfo]
Art Review [NY Times]

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