Black Virtue - La Vertu noire  1943

oil on canvas [br]765 x 1826 mm [url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/matta-black-virtue-t01232]Courtesy of Tate [/url] © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2015 "Matta joined the French Surrealist group in 1937 before moving to New York two years later. His paintings appear abstract but are based on drawings of erotic and violent scenes. In the two side panels of this ...