1971
Edition Size: 100
Image Size: 27.8 x 19.8 cm
Sheet Size: 43.5 x 31.5 cm
Reference: sabatier 284
Signed
Condition: Pristine
One plate, from the series Droites Libérées, an etching and aquatint in colours, on wove paper with full margins. Signed and numbered in pencil in the margin…numbered 87/100 (there were also 25 proofs numbered in Roman numerals). Published by Georges Visat, Paris. Framed. Matta believed that art and poetry can change lives, and was very involved in the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
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One of Chile’s most well-known painters is Roberto Matta. Born Roberto Matta is considered an influential figure in the abstract expressionist and surrealist art movement of the 20th century. Born on 11 November 1911 in Santiago, we was a student at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile where he studied architecture and interior design. Whilst at university, he travelled across South America visiting places such as a Peru and Panama, where he took the opportunity to make many surreal drawings of the natural world around him. Matta went onto to further travel Europe and the USA where he met other artists such as Salvador Dalí, Le Corbusier and Arshile Gorky.
