Wound Interrogation

Modern Art

1948

Roberto Matta
Chilean, 1911–2002

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Matta
Title: Wound Interrogation
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1948
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 149.9 × 195.6 cm (59 × 77 in.)
Credit Line: Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection
Reference Number: 1981.262
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

The United States Collects Pan American Art, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1959), cat. 48.
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1981-82 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1982), p. 38.
William Rubin, ed., Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, Vol. II, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Art, 1984), p. 582 (color ill.).
Valerie Fletcher, Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers exh. cat. (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992), pp. 249; 271 (color ill.); 291, cat. 92.
Elizabeth A. T. Smith, Colette Dartnall, eds., Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s, exh. cat. (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2001), pp. 26; 78–79 (color ill.); 80.

Art Institute of Chicago, The United States Collects Pan American Art, July 22–Sept. 7, 1959, cat. 48.
Art Institute of Chicago, Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection, Sept. 11–Oct. 31, 1982, no cat.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, Sept. 5, 1984–Jan. 15, 1985; Detroit Institute of Arts, Feb. 23–May 19, 1985; Dallas Museum of Arts, June 15–Sept. 8, 1985.
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers, June 10–Sept. 7, 1992, cat. 92.
Miami Art Museum, Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s, Mar. 21–June 10, 2002; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, June 29–Sept. 21, 2002.

Sold through Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, to Mr. and Mrs. Earle Ludgin, Hubbard Woods, by July 1959 [documentation of verso label in curatorial object file; Chicago 1959]; given to Art Institute of Chicago in 1981.

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