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Mercedes Matter, Surf, Wind and Rocks, Maine - Image 1 of 1
20 | 21 Art 
Mercedes Matter, Surf, Wind and Rocks, Maine - Image 1 of 1
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Mercedes Matter 1913–2001

Surf, Wind and Rocks, Maine

c. 1957
oil on canvas board 20½ h × 24½ w in (52 × 62 cm)
estimate: $8,000–12,000
result: $12,500
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provenance: Mark Borghi Fine Art, New York | Private Collection

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Matter was uncompromising in her belief that a work was complete only when it achieved a transcendence of the motif, when it captured a magical presence, based on the artist’s process of total correspondence to perception and experience. To make a painting that merely worked formally was not at all the point.

Jennifer Samet

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