Cut Drawing

GORDON MATTA-CLARK (1943-1978)
Cut Drawing
graphite on stack of cut paper, in artist's frame
26⁵⁄₈ x 39³⁄₄ x 2in. (67.7 x 100.8 x 5cm.)
Executed in 1977

Private Collection, Belgium (acquired directly from the artist).
Thence by descent to the present owner.

S. Breitwieser (ed.), Reorganizing Structure by Drawing Through It, Cologne 1997, p. 161, no. 487 (illustrated in colour, p. 186).

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gordon Matta-Clark: A Retrospective, 1985-1989, p. 125, no. 164 (illustrated, p. 136). This exhibition later travelled to Long Beach, University Art Museum; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Mönchengladbach, Museum Abteiberg; Basel, Kunsthalle Basel; Villeurbanne, Le Nouveau Musée; Antwerp, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen; Pori, Porin Taidemuseo; Pittsburgh, Carnegie-Mellon University Art Gallery; New York, Brooklyn Museum; Regina, Mackenzie Art Gallery; Berkeley, University Art Museum; Montréal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; New York, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.
Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio González, Gordon Matta-Clark: A Retrospective, 1992-1993 (illustrated in colour, p. 302). This exhibition later travelled to Marseilles, Musée Cantini and London, Serpentine Gallery.

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