Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled (Flying People Eaters)
Roberto Matta · 1942
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1960; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Possibly New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, "Matta," 1942, cat. 2.
- Possibly Chicago, Arts Club, "Matta," 1944, cat. 1-5, 7, or 11.
- University of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, "Matta," 1963, cat. 20.
- Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, "Matta," 1985, cat. 46 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Germana Ferrari (editor), Entretiens Morphologiques: Notebook No. 1, 1936-1944, (London, 1987), p. 233 (ill.).
- Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 190–91, cat. 94 (color ill.).
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