Roberto Matta — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works644

Museum Acquisitions

MoMA

Previous Sales 266

Sotheby's

Sans titre, 1978

Unknown

Jun 2026

Christie's

Le doute d'Inside, 1942

€55,880 ($61k USD)

Apr 2026

Christie's

Projection des liquides des substances VI, 1938

Christie's

Christie's

Sotheby's

Secrets de l’air, 1969

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Erreur d'apparaître, 1957

Sotheby's

Christie's

Une lumière et une force, 1957

€201,600 ($222k USD)

Oct 2024

Christie's

Frontiere del sogno - ciclo ''risveglio della natura"

€113,400 ($125k USD)

Sep 2024

Christie's

$Infraction, Ironies, L'infracteur$

Infraction, Ironies, L'infracteur, 1957

€88,200 ($97k USD)

Sep 2024

Christie's

L'espace de l'espèce, 1961

Sotheby's

Christie's

Sueño: un sogno, 1993

Christie's

Christie's

Le Flux du psycho-espace, 1972

€5,292 ($6k USD)

Jun 2024

Christie's

Faire resonne l'obstacle, 1978

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

L'être en rêve, 1961

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Temps-space du pissenlit, 1967

€324,830 ($325k USD)

Jun 2022

Sotheby's

Scie le désir, 1957

Sotheby's

For Sale 19

Ascaso Gallery · Artsy

Autour du Je, 1984

Price on request

Oil on canvas

RoGallery · 1stDibs

La Dulce Aqua Vita, Signed Surrealist Etching by Roberto Matta

DIE GALERIE · Artsy

Denis Bloch Fine Art · Artsy

12PM – L’Arc Obscur Des Heurs, 1975

For sale

Aquatint

RoGallery · 1stDibs

Surrealist Figure in Space-scape, Surrealist Wax Crayon Drawing by Roberto Matta

$9,000

Gallery Art · 1stDibs

La Dulce Aqua Vita, Large Signed Carborundum Etching on Handmade Paper, 2002

$10,463

RoGallery · 1stDibs

La Une a L'h Pile (Head to Head), Surrealist Aquatint Etching by Roberto Matta

$8,500

RoGallery · 1stDibs

The New School, Surrealist Suite of 10 etchings by Roberto Matta

$7,500

RoGallery · 1stDibs

Ma Chair Rie from Requiem pour La Fin des Temps, Etching/Pastel by Roberto Matta

$4,850

Wallector · 1stDibs

Composition - Drawing by Roberto Matta - 1970s

$6,532

Wallector · 1stDibs

Untitled - Early Surrealist Pencil Drawing by Roberto Matta - 1950s

$7,007

Sims Reed Gallery · 1stDibs

Viens Voir

For sale

Sims Reed Gallery · 1stDibs

Castronautes

For sale

Sims Reed Gallery · 1stDibs

FMR: Plate 7

For sale

Sims Reed Gallery · 1stDibs

Droites Libérées: Plate 9

For sale

Sims Reed Gallery · 1stDibs

Cruxificion

For sale

Sims Reed Gallery · 1stDibs

Que principio a abrir los ojos

For sale

Wallector · 1stDibs

Untitled - Oil on Canvas by Roberto Sebastian Matta - 1996

$58,196

Galleri GKM AB · 1stDibs

La vigna di una foglia

For sale

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Market4,887 auction results

trending_upPaintings Range

$189 – $1.6M

153 of 200 paintings lots with prices

calculatePaintings Average

$102K

Object-type specific

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$55.4K

153 priced paintings lots

calendar_todayLast Paintings Sale

Apr 2026 · $49.5K

Latest tracked sale in this object type

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Paintings: $55.4K medianWorks on paper: $6.5K medianSculpture/objects: $12.2K medianPhotographs: — medianEditioned prints: $600 medianBooks/portfolios: $4.3K medianUnclassified lots: $7.1K medianEditioned objects: $6.9K median

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Prizes & Awards1

Praemium Imperiale

Winner 1995

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Education1

UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture

Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Current Exhibitions0

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