Monotype in colors on paper. 1979
Signed and dated in pencil lower right of image
Titled in pencil by the artist
This image is similar to a monotype in the Art Institute of Chicago entitled Alone, 1980, an interior scene, same model and similar paintings depicted in the background.
The Old Print Shop has a smaller version of this image, done in 1980, measuring 20 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches, priced at $8,500. Inv. 42395
Condition: Excellent
Archival framing with OP3 Acrylic
Sheet size/Image: 28 x 14 3/4 inches
Frame size: 39 1/2 x 26 1/8 inches
Matt Phillips (1927-2017) was born in New York City. He initially pursued a career as a poet and, in 1952, earned an M.A. in literature from the University of Chicago. At the same time, he was studying art at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. Not content with the collections of modern art in the U.S., Phillips traveled throughout Europe and studied painting in the museums and studios there. He taught in Paris then returned to the U.S. in 1964 to teach at Bard College in New York. After retiring from Bard in 1987, he devoted his time to exhibitions, travel and guest lectures. Matt Phillips passed away in Oakland, Ca in March, 2017.
Phillips is widely recognized as a master of the monotype and monotype/collage. Phillips’ reputation as an important 20th century artist is based on his revival of the monotype technique in America, previously explored by 19th century artists Degas, Gauguin, and Prendergast. Phillips merges figural and abstract traditions in his works. With their strong sense of rhythm, shape and color, his monotypes and etchings are pleasing on a purely visual level. The images of nudes and landscapes are a perfect complement to this technique because they add an even greater sense of luxuriant voluptuousness.
Selected Museum Collections:
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, MD
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
National Gallery, Rosenwald Collection, Washington, DC
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Public Library, Philadelphia, PA
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, OH
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
