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Mercedes Matter 1913–2001

Untitled (Figure with Chair)

c. 1936
charcoal on paper 24½ h × 19 w in (62 × 48 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $2,500
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provenance: Mark Borghi Fine Art, New York

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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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