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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 NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Years of Fear, 1941
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Untitled, 1942
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
Tate Gallery, London, UK
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")
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
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
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indiana State University Art Collection
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University
Composition, watercolor, 1943
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
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
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Onze formes du doute, 1957
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(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)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(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:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
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:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Roberto Matta 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
Tate Magazine
Interview with the artist
The Art Story
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