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Judgements: After the Nuremberg Trial

Roberto Matta

Sims Reed Gallery (IFPDA) United Kingdom

Artwork details

Artist: Roberto Matta
Title: Judgements: After the Nuremberg Trial
Description: Plate 5 from 'Judgements'.
Signed in pencil.
Printed on Arches wove paper by Atelier Georges Visat, Paris.
Published by Blue Moon Gallery, New York.
Plate: 42 x 55 cm.
(Sabatier 178)
Date: 1967
Medium: Color Etching and Aquatint
Edition: Numbered from the edition of 100.
Signature: Signed
Sheet: 50.2 x 66.2 cm
Price: Price on request

The Artist

Roberto Matta

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.