The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Castronautes

Castronautes

1965
(Chilean, 1911–2002)
Sheet: 65.6 x 49.5 cm (25 13/16 x 19 1/2 in.); Platemark: 31 x 23.6 cm (12 3/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
© Artists Right Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Sabatier 129
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Around the time this print was made, Roberto Matta also expressed his political views in a series of paintings opposing the Vietnam War.

Description

This print represents one of Roberto Matta’s preferred subjects in printmaking: politics. Matta traveled to Europe and worked with Surrealist artists, who favored the type of evocative but abstract forms seen here. The artist uses roughly drawn lines to suggest the dynamism that he felt characterized astronauts and Cuba’s move toward communism under leader Fidel Castro (1926–2016), merging the two in the print’s title.
  • after 1965-1967
    (Gilles A. Abrioux, Chicago, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
    1967-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Roland Sabatier. Matta: catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre gravé (1943-1974). Stockholm: Sonet, 1975. Reproduced and mentioned: p. 69, cat. 129
  • A Graphic Revolution: Prints and Drawings in Latin America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 14-August 2, 2020).
  • {{cite web|title=Castronautes|url=false|author=Roberto Matta|year=1965|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1967.68