20|21 Art: The Chicago Edition 
27 October 2023
Mercedes Matter, Nude Figure Study - Image 1 of 3
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20|21 Art: The Chicago Edition 
Mercedes Matter, Nude Figure Study - Image 1 of 3
Mercedes Matter, Nude Figure Study - Image 2 of 3
Mercedes Matter, Nude Figure Study - Image 3 of 3
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Mercedes Matter 1913–2001

Nude Figure Study

charcoal on paper sight: 24½ h × 18½ w in (62 × 47 cm)
estimate: $1,500–2,500
result: $1,764
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Estate stamp to verso.
provenance: Estate of the artist | Private Collection

This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

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Matter was uncompromising in her belief that a work was complete only when it achieved a transcendence of the motif, when it captured a magical presence, based on the artist’s process of total correspondence to perception and experience. To make a painting that merely worked formally was not at all the point.

Jennifer Samet

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