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Matta (1911-2002)
Lot 96

Matta (1911-2002)

Untitled

Fermé9 March 2021

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Matta (1911-2002)
Untitled
signed indistinctly ‘MATTA’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
40 1/8 x 60 in. (102 x 152.4 cm.)
Painted in 1963.

Private collection, Montreal
Anon. sale; Christie’s, New York, 31 May 2001, lot 165
Private collection, Dominican Republic
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Note du spécialiste

...I am very interested in chance. For me, it is the best of things. It is a game between series. Chance rolls on and never stops. It’s like the random button on a CD player. The numbers continually roll over and do not stop, as if they are caught in a sphere. They turn and turn and then stop by chance on a track. We are like these numbers. We are rocked and bombarded from above and below, from right and left. We are a target and bombarded from all sides. This is the administration of chance, a serial chance.
—Matta