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Poly-joueurs des cartes (Card Players)

© Estate of Roberto Matta / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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© Estate of Roberto Matta / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

© Estate of Roberto Matta / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

Roberto Matta

Chilean, 1911-2002

Poly-joueurs des cartes (Card Players), ca. 1957

oil on canvas

support: 55 1/4 x 89 inches (140.335 x 226.06 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Charles Clifton Fund, 1962

1962:6

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Inscriptions

inscription / back, lower right / poly-joueurs/des cartes/#126/Matta
signature / back, lower right / Matta

Class

Paintings

Work Type

Oil painting

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La Philosophie et la peinture de Rene Magritte (Volume I)
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