Gallery 269, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor
Main Building
Gallery 269, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor
Main Building
This painting belongs to the “Psychological Morphologies” series, in which Matta sought to discover regions of space hitherto unexplored in the realm of art. It specifically pays homage to Marcel Duchamp’s great allegory of frustrated desire, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) of 1915–23.
Matta admired Duchamp’s explorations of science and eroticism and he gave these themes new energy in an explosion of nebulous vapors that swirl in a vision of primal chaos.
Gallery 269, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor
| Title: | The Bachelors Twenty Years Later |
| Date: | 1943 |
| Artist: | Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911–2002) |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions: | 38 × 50 inches (96.5 × 127 cm) |
| Classification: | Paintings |
| Credit Line: | Purchased with the Edith H. Bell Fund, the Edward and Althea Budd Fund, gifts (by exchange) of Mr. and Mrs. William P. Wood and Bernard Davis, and bequest (by exchange) of Miss Anna Warren Ingersoll, 1989 |
| Accession Number: | 1989-51-1 |
| Geography: | Made in New York, New York, United States, North and Central America |
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Gallery 269, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor
Main Building