BIB_ID
423570
Accession number
MA 3500.348
Creator
Matta, 1912-2002, sender.
Display Date
Taxco de Alarcón, Mexico, 1941 June 25.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg, 1980.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 27.5 x 20.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Possible date of writing from postmark.
Signed in yellow crayon; with lines throughout in various color crayons.
With black, pink, yellow, blue, and green illustration on page 2.
Envelope addressed to "Mr. Paul Rosemberg [sic] / Madison Hotel / East 58th St / New York City / Estados Unidos."
Postmarked and stamped.
Signed in yellow crayon; with lines throughout in various color crayons.
With black, pink, yellow, blue, and green illustration on page 2.
Envelope addressed to "Mr. Paul Rosemberg [sic] / Madison Hotel / East 58th St / New York City / Estados Unidos."
Postmarked and stamped.
Summary
He says that after all, Mexico is a land of paper bulls and fireworks, not a land in ruins as so many people think. But the accordion-like cities and men dressed in black, with handkerchiefs and shirts in Napoleonic colors, carry the day. It's a land one can't prevent oneself from painting. Even police officers paint. He says that [Diego] Rivera's frescoes are enlargements of New York comic strips, illustrated cartography. He [and his wife] are in a mountain village, Taxco, in the state of Guerrero. He's sending him the sun [including a colorful drawing he made of it], as hard as one's heart. He says that if Rosenberg sells his painting, he'd appreciate it if he'd send him the money by telegram. He and his wife really need the money. He can already smell the ochre, animal odor of the painting with black images on black or invisible yellow.
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