Rating and value 2024 of Roberto Matta's paintings and drawings

If you own a work by the artist Roberto Matta or based on his work and would like to know its value, our state-approved experts and auctioneers will guide you. Our specialists will carry out a free appraisal of your work, and provide you with a precise estimate of its value on the current market. Thereafter, if you wish to sell your work, we will direct you to the best possible arrangement to obtain the optimum price.

Artist's rating and value

A surrealist painter, Roberto Matta has established himself as a major figure on the art market. His works are highly prized by collectors. The only works available are oils on canvas, which sell for between €10 and €1,198,490 - a relatively wide range, but one that says a lot about the price these works can fetch. For example, a work by Roberto Matta can fetch millions of euros at auction, as evidenced by his oil on canvas La révolte des contraires, dating from 1944, which sold for €3,443,440 in 2012.  

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Style and technique of artist Roberto Matta

Roberto Matta is a Chilean surrealist artist, who produced drawings, prints, paintings and sculptures.

He is responsible for a substantial output. His works are characterized by bright colors, fine lines and rather complex compositions.

The career of Roberto Matta

Roberto Matta (1911-2002), was a Surrealist artist born in Santiago, Chile.

He first studied architecture in his home town, and moved to France in 1933, to work in Le Corbusier's studio. He traveled to Spain, Scandinavia and France, where he met René Magritte, a leading exponent of the Surrealist movement. Encouraged by Dali, he also met André Breton, who encouraged him to take the surrealist path. At the time, he rejected the rationalism promoted by Le Corbusier.

He developed a new technical process consisting of tracing the different spaces of his composition with a paint-impregnated cloth rag. He calls the series produced using this technique Psychological morphologies. During the war, he moved to the United States, where he exhibited his work. It was there that he produced his first works with phosphorescent pigments, combined with the study of chemical processes on the fourth dimension and relativistic physics.

In 1947, his first monographic exhibition took place in Paris. The following year, Breton expelled him from the Surrealist group on suspicion of having had an affair with Achille Gorky's wife.

At the end of his life, he moved to Italy, where he died in 2002.

Roberto Matta's legacy

Roberto Matta's works are characterized by perpetual experimentation around Surrealism. Today, he is not widely known by the general public but appreciated and sought after by collectors.

Although some of his paintings or drawings are held in museums in France and around the world, private collectors play a big role in preserving his work.  

His signature

Not all of Roberto Matta's works are signed.

If you think you own one, it's best to have it appraised to be sure of your painting's originality.

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