The Commonality of the Famous

Provenance

Possibly Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York. Sold by Bodley Gallery, New York, to Robert Elkon, New York, Dec. 1960 [Melyora Kramer of The Elkon Gallery, Inc., in a phone conversation Nov. 16, 1995]; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1961; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018

The Commonality of the Famous

Matta

c. 1951

Accession Number

119152

Medium

Graphite and crayon, with smudging, on cream wove paper

Dimensions

25.1 × 33.2 cm (9 15/16 × 13 1/8 in.)

Classification

graphite

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection