Martin Reyna

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"Winter Palace" is a captivating abstract painting on paper by 20th Century Denver artist Edward Marecak (1919–1993). Created circa the 1960s, this ethereal work combines acrylic and...

Pastel, gouache and coffee on paper. Artwork size: 58 x 56 cm. Frame size: 78 x 76 cm. Free shipment worldwide. Acquired directly from the artist. Archive number (P90/37) “The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom. Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others. Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings. Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén at number 36 Södra Förstadsgatan in Malmö, Sweden. This was also the time when Matta began to collaborate with poets and other artists in Sweden. He produced the illustrations for Lasse Söderberg’s first anthology of poems, Akrobaterna (“The Acrobats”), published in 1955, and was also responsible for the cover of the Swedish art and literary magazine Salamander. In 1959 the first museum exhibition of Matta’s work in Europe was arranged at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm. Held under the aegis of Pontus Hultén, it was entitled “Fifteen Forms of Doubt” and included 15 or so gigantic paintings...

Colourful Painting of Abstract Flowers on a White Background by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield. This original is from the 'Spring Burst' Interior Design Series. Art m...

Henry Rayburn Finale, 1995 Acrylic and mixed media collage on paper Signed in graphite pencil on the front Unique Frame included Provenance: Irving, Texas Corporate Collection de-acc...

Ron Gorchov Untitled, inscribed to Robert Vogele, 1978 Watercolor and etching on paper with 2 deckled edges. Hand signed in pencil and inscribed on lower front. Inscription reads as ...

Painting of Abstract Red, Pink & Orange Wild Flowers on a White Background by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield. From the 'Spring Burst' Interior Design Series. Framed in a Contemporary Pewter...

Sonia Gechtoff Flag Icon, 1963 Pastel, graphite and collage Frame included: elegantly framed in hand made wood frame with UV plexiglass Evocative mixed media mid century modern work...

Elizabeth Murray Untitled Abstract Composition, 1990 Graphite, colored pencil and paper collage on paper (frame bears the original Paula Cooper Gallery label) Signed and dated Spring...

Abstract White Daisy Flowers on Turquoise Background by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. This original is from the 'Spring Burst' In...

Painting of Abstract Red, Pink, Yellow & White Wild Flowers on an Orange Background by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. From the 'Spring Burst' Interior Design Series. ...