Matta - Entretiens Morphologiques - 1987

Morphological interviews. Notebook No. 1. 1936-1944. London, Sistan, Paris, E. P. I. Filipacchi, 1987. 4to, 283 pages, texts in English and French, with numerous black-and-white and color illustrations in the text (including the facsimile of 6 lithographs on tinted paper), as well as 3 facsimiles inserted in mounted pockets (International Surrealism Exhibition, on page 57; Debate in art circles, p. 102; Letter to Charles Duits, with its envelope, page 158), soft black endpapers and flyleaves, gray publisher’s cloth illustrated with the publisher’s color-illustrated dust jacket. Unconstructed edition. Unique edition of this retrospective of the early work of the Chilean surrealist painter Roberto Sebastian Matta Echaurren (1911-2002), who settled in France from 1933 at Le Corbusier’s. “Adopted” by Breton, he was a familiar figure among the surrealists until his inevitable expulsion from the group in October 1948. Germana Ferrari, wealthy heiress of an Italian pharmaceutical group, was the painter’s last of five wives: married in 1970 in Cuba, she remained by his side for the last 32 years of his life, dedicating herself to the diffusion of her husband’s works. See also Nédeléc (Marine): Généalogie et cartographie de la famille Matta (Paris, 2014).