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Mercedes Matter, Abstract Study - Image 1 of 3
Mercedes Matter, Abstract Study - Image 2 of 3
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Mercedes Matter 1913–2001

Abstract Study

1938
graphite on paper 25 h × 19 w in (63 × 48 cm)
estimate: $1,500–2,500
result: $1,935
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provenance: Estate of the artist | Private Collection

This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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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

What I want is depth compressed to the surface.

Mercedes Matter

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