Matta
Rocks
1939
Scroll
Matta
Rocks
1939
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Unframed: 38 1/8 × 60 1/8 in. (96.8 × 152.7 cm.)
Framed: 43 × 65 × 3 3/4 in. (109.2 × 165.1 × 9.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
1951.335
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1951; Saidie A. May, by purchase, 1941; from Pierre Matisse Gallery
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Saidie A. May Collection of Modern paintings and Sculpture", March 17-April 16, 1950, cat. 76, (exhibited as "Blue and Yellow Composition").
Elizabeth Smith, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Colette Dartnall, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, "Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s", tour to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 30, 2001 - January 6, 2002; Miami Art Museum, March 21, 2002-June 10, 2002; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, June 29, 2002-October 20, 2002.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris", circulated to; North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005.
Elizabeth Smith, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Colette Dartnall, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, "Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s", tour to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 30, 2001 - January 6, 2002; Miami Art Museum, March 21, 2002-June 10, 2002; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, June 29, 2002-October 20, 2002.
Katy Rothkopf, "Matisse, Picasso and the School of Paris", circulated to; North Carolina Museum of Art, October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005.
The Baltimore Museum of Art News, “Catalogue of the Saidie A. May Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture,” March, 1950, cat. 76, p. 19.
Sotheby's: Latin American Art, New York: May 26 & 27, 2004, p.56, ill.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, "Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s," Chicago: 2002, p. 15, jacket.
Michael Preble, "William Baziotes: Paintings and Drawings, 1934 - 1962." Italy: Skira Editore, S.p.A., 2004, p.18, ill. 4.
Greeley, Robin Adele, Samantha Kavky, Oliver Shell, and Oliver Tostmann. "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s." New York, NY: Rizzoli Electa in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art and Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2018, ill.
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