Description
Le verbe être
signed and dated 'Matta 59' (lower left)
oil on canvas
56 x 79in. (142.5 x 200.5cm)
Painted in 1959-64
Exhibited
Punkaharju, Retretti Art Centre, Surrealism in visual arts and film, May-September 1987.
Provenance
Galleria Arte Moderna, Milan.
Court Gallery, Copenhagen.
Galerie Christel, Helsinki.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the early 1970s.
Notes
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Mrs Ferrari-Matta and dated April 2004.
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