Manzalba

Details

Matta (1911-2002)
Manzalba
signed and inscribed indistinctly 'Matta' (lower right)
oil on canvas
65 5/8 x 80 3/8 in. (166.7 x 204.2 cm.)
Painted in 1970.

Provenance

San Luca Galleria d'Arte, Bologna
Marino Golinelli, Bologna
His sale; Phillips, London, 13 October 2007, lot 44
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Edizioni Galleria San Luca, ed., Matta, Bologna, 1976, p. 48, no. 57 (illustrated).

Further Details

This work is included in the Archives de L'oeuvre de Matta under no. 70/41.

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Resistance is in each of us. We resist by exercising our creativity. That is true poetry – when we seek new comparisons, other ways of looking and conceiving of things.
—Matta

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