Roberto Matta Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Roberto Matta available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Roberto Matta at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City 15 works online when last checked
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice The Un-Nominator Renominated, 1952-53
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C.
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C.
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Caixa Galicia Foundation, Vigo, Spain (in Spanish)  (Works are shown at the right, under "Obras")
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish) 
Fundación Telefónica, Chile (in Spanish) 
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina Note that the JPG image is displayed smaller than its actual size
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indiana State University Art Collection
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University Composition, watercolor, 1943
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Chile (in Spanish) 
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago A Grave Situation
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland Composition, 1957
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California Untitled, 1959
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image) 3 works by Roberto Matta online
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish) 
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  Onze formes du doute, 1957
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid - to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version" - images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Art of Roberto Matta
Arte Latinoamericano La Belle Halene, 1983 Le Coeur d'Helene, 1957
Colección Cisneros, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo Virtual del Surrealismo A Grave Situation
The Androom Archives Eramen
The Legacy Project "A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"
Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) 
Tate Magazine Interview with the artist
The Art Story
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