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Roberto Matta

Glimmer of Violence

1958

On View in Gertrude Bernoudy Gallery, Room 4

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  • Artist Roberto Matta (French, b. Chile, 1911–2002)
  • Title Glimmer of Violence
  • Date 1958
  • Medium Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions unframed | 45 x 57 7/8 in.
  • Credit line Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., 1962
  • Object number WU 4027
  • Currently on View Gertrude Bernoudy Gallery, Room 4

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Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism
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A Gallery of Modern Art
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 08/09/1994 - 10/16/1994

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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/04/1983 - 11/06/1983

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1962
Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.

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