Lithograph by the painter Matta Sebastian 74 length 53 width title "Figures in movement". (warranty certificate from the art gallery
follows). Roberto Sebastian Matta, was a Chilean painter and architect [Santiago de Chile 1911- Civitavecchia (Rome) 2002].
He studied at the Catholic University of Santiago, graduating in architecture in 1931.
In 1933 he worked in a studio in Paris, a friend of Garcia Lorca he was introduced to Salvatore Dalì and Breton (1937)
who influenced his initial painting. He began painting in Trevignon in France in Brittany, later moving to the United States.
After joining the surrealist current he came into contact with Mirò, Duchamp, and Gorky, his painting once again becomes a story,
which however arises from the intrinsic vitality of the signs and develops in the dynamism of the pictorial action.
In his abstract surrealism, the signs become small beings,
and act on the canvas in their fantastic and grotesque pantomine whose profound meaning is criticism pushed to the point of parody.
He returned to Chile for a short time and then moved to Europe in 1948. His abstract surrealism influenced many American painters.
Having moved to Rome his painting will become a point of reference between expressionism and the nascent Italian abstract art.
In 1985 the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris dedicated a major retrospective to him.
In the same year Chris Marker dedicated a documentary to him, Matta '85.
Among his most important paintings are "psychological morphologies (1938-39) "Aux granges du reve (1956)
"la Question DJamila" (1962) the triptych "on the state of 'union" (1964-65) "The shadow of certainties" (1974).
HAS exhibited in Berlin, London, Tokyo, Paris. He also worked as an illustrator.
He received an important Japanese award in 1995 and awards in Milan. His works are exhibited in the most important museums of the world in New York, such as with "Listen to Live (1941)
at the Museum of Modern Art. At the Center Pompidou in Paris,
at the Fine Art Museum in San Francisco and at the Art Gallery National in Rome, but also in Venice, Chicago, Washington and London.
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