Matta
1911 - 2002

 

 

 

Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren was known simply as Matta. Born in Chile and trained as an architect, Matta became acquainted with Salvador Dalí and André Breton in 1934 and joined the Surrealist movement in 1937. The same year, he worked with Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy of Bauhaus fame. His influences at that time were Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, but even more so with Yves Tanguy. Matta's first exhibition was at the Julian Levy Gallery, New York in 1940.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not in the Imagery of Chess show, the1954 painting below is entitled Joueurs d'echecs