Six original lithographs with hand colouring in oil pastel, from the tiny edition of 20 – these being number 1/20 – AND Matta only hand coloured the first two sets in the edition, making these incredibly rare! The other set which was hand coloured is in the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Each piece is signed twice, once in pencil and again in the coloured crayon. The six images make up the Minded Mind suite, printed by Kinji Akagawa and published by the Minneapolis School of Art in 1966. The entire edition was donated by Matta, with the proceeds of sales to be used to benefit the Minneapolis School of Art. Matta went to the school from Paris for an eleven day period of demonstrations, critiques, and discussions. Sold in it’s original black portfolio case with justification page. Roberto Matta was a leading Surrealist painter, draftsman, and printmaker, whose work taps into the creative unconscious through the use of chance and automatic drawing techniques. Matta developed a visionary visual language of vaguely figurative biomorphic forms inhabiting an eerie dream-like world of violent conflict and deep anxiety. He described his own work as “the subconscious in its burning, liquid state; a conscious daytime substitution of the phenomenon of dreams.” Paper size: 76 x 55.5 cm each.
