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Herbert Lust: Collector, Scholar, Friend
MATTA (1911-2002)
The Apples We Know
Details
MATTA (1911-2002)
The Apples We Know
oil on canvas
37 5⁄8 x 50 in. (95.6 x 127 cm.)
Painted in 1942
The Apples We Know
oil on canvas
37 5⁄8 x 50 in. (95.6 x 127 cm.)
Painted in 1942
Provenance
Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York.
William N. Copley, New York (acquired from the above, 1948); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5 November 1979, lot 40.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
William N. Copley, New York (acquired from the above, 1948); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5 November 1979, lot 40.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
G. Ferrari, MATTA: Inter-Morphological Views, Notebook No. 1 1936-1944, London, 1987, pp. 169 and 265 (illustrated).
D. Adès and N. Rosenthal, Matta/Duchamp, exh. cat., Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich, 2018, p. 66.
D. Adès and N. Rosenthal, Matta/Duchamp, exh. cat., Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich, 2018, p. 66.
Exhibited
Purchase, Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Area Codes 914⁄203: The Private Eyes – 20th Century Art from New York and Connecticut Collections, April-June 1984.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, June-September 1999, vol. I, pp. 249-251 and 892, no. 184 (illustrated; dated 1943).
Paris, Centre Pompidou, La Révolution surréaliste, March-June 2002, pp. 332 and 439 (illustrated; dated 1943).
Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Surrealismus 1919-1944, Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso..., July-November 2002, p. 334 (illustrated; dated 1943).
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Dali, Picasso, and the Surrealist Vision, October-December 2005, n.p., no. L81 (dated 1943).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, June-September 1999, vol. I, pp. 249-251 and 892, no. 184 (illustrated; dated 1943).
Paris, Centre Pompidou, La Révolution surréaliste, March-June 2002, pp. 332 and 439 (illustrated; dated 1943).
Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Surrealismus 1919-1944, Dalí, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Picasso..., July-November 2002, p. 334 (illustrated; dated 1943).
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Dali, Picasso, and the Surrealist Vision, October-December 2005, n.p., no. L81 (dated 1943).
Further Details
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Matta Archives, signed by Alisée Matta and dated 2 September 2026.
Presentado por
Paige Kestenman
Vice President, Senior Specialist, Co-Head of 20th Century Evening Sale