Wound Interrogation

1. The artist; sold through Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, to Mr. and Mrs. Earle Ludgin, Hubbard Woods, by July 1959 [verso label]; given to Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 23, 1981.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, The United States Collects Pan American Art, July 22–Sept. 7, 1959, cat. 48.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection, Sept. 11–Oct. 31, 1982, no cat.
• New York, Museum of Modern Art, Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, Sept. 5, 1984–Jan. 15, 1985, no cat no.; Detroit Institute of Arts, Feb. 23–May 19, 1985; Dallas Museum of Arts, June 15–Sept. 8, 1985.
• Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers, June 10–Sept. 7, 1992, cat. 92.
• Miami Art Museum, Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s, Mar. 21–June 10, 2002, no cat. no; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, June 29–Sept. 21, 2002.
• Venice, Ca' Pesaro Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Roberto Matta 1911-2002, Oct. 25, 2024-Mar. 23, 2025, cat. 15.

• The United States Collects Pan American Art, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), cat. 48.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1981-82 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1982), 38.
• William Rubin, ed., Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, Vol. II, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, 1984), 582 (color ill.).
• Valerie Fletcher, Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers exh. cat. (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992), 249, 271 (color ill.), 291, cat. 92.
• Elizabeth A. T. Smith, Colette Dartnall, eds., Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s, exh. cat. (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2001), 26, 78–79 (color ill.), 80.
• Norman Rosenthal, Dawn Ades, and Elisabetta Barisoni, Roberto Matta: 1911-2002, exh. cat. (Milan: Silvana, 2024), 32, 33, 52, 53, 86, cat. 15 (color ill.), 145, cat. 15.

The Earth Is a Man

Art Institute of Chicago

Drive in the Knife

Art Institute of Chicago

Psychological Morphology

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Psychological Morphology)

Art Institute of Chicago

Boxers

Art Institute of Chicago

Couple IV

Art Institute of Chicago

YO + U

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Flying People Eaters)

Art Institute of Chicago

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