Écrire son cri
1975
Matta's 'Écrire son cri' (Write One's Cry) from 1975 is an oil painting that explores emotional expression and surrealist imagery. The work demonstrates the artist's continued engagement with dynamic, biomorphic forms and psychological themes.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern Day Auction
May 18, 2022
Estimate: $50,000 to $70,000
Lot 335
Spotted works by Matta
Artists in conversation
Yves Tanguy
French · b. 1900
Tanguy's surrealist oil paintings share Matta's deeply psychological and dreamlike biomorphic landscapes, filled with strange organic forms floating in ambiguous psychological space with similarly expressive emotional intensity.
Roberto Sebastián Echaurren
Chilean · b. 1911
As Matta himself, this reflects his own surrealist lineage, but his closest peer in biomorphic abstraction with dynamic swirling forms and emotional urgency is Gordon Onslow Ford, who shared Matta's interest in automatic painting techniques and psychological cosmic imagery rendered in vibrant oil.
Wifredo Lam
Cuban · b. 1902
Lam combined surrealist automatism with expressive colorful biomorphic figures carrying deep psychological and emotional weight, creating works that resonate strongly with Matta's dynamic post war surrealist explorations in oil paint.
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