Provenienz:

Private collection, Brussels (Mme Marie-Louis Angenant (nicht veröffentlichen!).

Christie´s London, 24 June 1993



Chilean-born artist Roberto Matta (1911-2002) was an international figure whose worldview represent a synthesis of European, American and Latin American cultures.

The painting from 1958, showes a cosmic landscape dominated by a fantastical machine highly reminiscent of Duchamp´s The Large Glass. The imagery of the painting hints at the paranoia and fear associated with the atomic age, exacerbated by the Cold War and the Space Race. These fears were intensified by Russia´s launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1957.