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Castronautes

1965

Roberto Matta

(Chilean, 1911–2002)
Culture
Chile, 20th century
Medium
color etching and aquatint
Support
Wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 65.6 x 49.5 cm (25 13/16 x 19 1/2 in.); Platemark: 31 x 23.6 cm (12 3/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Harold T. Clark Educational Extension Fund 1967.68
Catalogue raisonné
Sabatier 129
Impression
30
Copyright
© Artists Right Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Around the time this print was made, Roberto Matta also expressed his political views in a series of paintings opposing the Vietnam War.

Description

This print represents one of Roberto Matta’s preferred subjects in printmaking: politics. Matta traveled to Europe and worked with Surrealist artists, who favored the type of evocative but abstract forms seen here. The artist uses roughly drawn lines to suggest the dynamism that he felt characterized astronauts and Cuba’s move toward communism under leader Fidel Castro (1926–2016), merging the two in the print’s title.

Castronautes

1965

Roberto Matta

(Chilean, 1911–2002)
Chile, 20th century

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