Gordon Matta-Clark

(American, 1943–1978)

Gordon Matta-Clark was an American artist and architect known for his large-scale projects. Dealing with themes of metamorphosis and resistance towards the commodification of art, Matta-Clark produced interventions in architectural structures he called “anarchitecture.” The most famous of these was Splitting (1974), an intervention in which the artist sawed out a gaping vertical segment from the middle of a wood-frame house in suburban New Jersey. “By undoing a building [I] open a state of enclosure which has been preconditioned not only by physical necessity but by the industry that proliferates suburban and urban boxes as a pretext for ensuring a passive, isolated consumer,” he once explained. Born on June 22, 1943 in New York, NY, his father was the artist Roberto Matta and his godmother was Marcel Duchamp’s wife Teeny Duchamp. He went on to study architecture at Cornell University from 1963 to 1968, where he met Robert Smithson who along with Dennis Oppenheim influenced his interest in using non-art materials. Moving back to New York, Matta-Clark experimented with both food and photography as well as documenting the burgeoning graffiti-scene and the sewers and subways of the city. The artist tragically died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 35 on August 27, 1978 in New York, NY. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Reina Sofia National Museum in Madrid, among others.

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Gordon Matta-Clark (126 results)
Conical Intersect, 1975

Gordon Matta-Clark

Conical Intersect, 1975

Sale Date: April 10, 2024

Auction Closed

Genua Datum Cut 73, 1973

Gordon Matta-Clark

Genua Datum Cut 73, 1973

Sale Date: December 1, 2023

Auction Closed

Conical Intersect (also called Etant..., 2017–2018

Gordon Matta-Clark

Conical Intersect (also called Etant..., 2017–2018

Sale Date: November 30, 2023

Auction Closed

Circus (Caribbean Orange Series), 1978

Gordon Matta-Clark

Circus (Caribbean Orange Series), 1978

Sale Date: June 6, 2023

Auction Closed

Untitled, 1973-1974, 1973–1974

Gordon Matta-Clark

Untitled, 1973-1974, 1973–1974

Sale Date: May 7, 2023

Auction Closed

Artist's books, two and catalog, 1973–1997

Gordon Matta-Clark

Artist's books, two and catalog, 1973–1997

Sale Date: March 15, 2023

Auction Closed

Walls paper, 1973

Gordon Matta-Clark

Walls paper, 1973

Sale Date: November 12, 2022

Auction Closed

Cut Drawing, 1977

Gordon Matta-Clark

Cut Drawing, 1977

Sale Date: October 18, 2022

Auction Closed

Day's End, 1975

Gordon Matta-Clark

Day's End, 1975

Sale Date: October 13, 2022

Auction Closed

Circle Grid Overlay, 1977

Gordon Matta-Clark

Circle Grid Overlay, 1977

Sale Date: June 2, 2022

Auction Closed

Walls Paper, 1973

Gordon Matta-Clark

Walls Paper, 1973

Sale Date: March 10, 2022

Auction Closed

MATTA-CLARK, GORDON. Walls Paper., 1973

Gordon Matta-Clark

MATTA-CLARK, GORDON. Walls Paper., 1973

Sale Date: November 9, 2021

Auction Closed

MATTA-CLARK, GORDON. Splitting.

Gordon Matta-Clark

MATTA-CLARK, GORDON. Splitting.

Sale Date: November 9, 2021

Auction Closed

Variations on Christo’s Valley Curtain, 1971

Gordon Matta-Clark

Variations on Christo’s Valley Curtain, 1971

Sale Date: February 17, 2021

Auction Closed

Bing-Go Gone, 1975

Gordon Matta-Clark

Bing-Go Gone, 1975

Sale Date: December 8, 2020

Auction Closed

Office Baroque, 1977

Gordon Matta-Clark

Office Baroque, 1977

Sale Date: March 11, 2020

Auction Closed

Walls Paper, 1973

Gordon Matta-Clark

Walls Paper, 1973

Sale Date: September 20, 2019

Auction Closed

2nd Stage Proposals for Antwerp (with Final..., 1977

Gordon Matta-Clark

2nd Stage Proposals for Antwerp (with Final..., 1977

Sale Date: June 26, 2018

Auction Closed

First Approach, 1977

Gordon Matta-Clark

First Approach, 1977

Sale Date: June 26, 2018

Auction Closed

OFFICE BAROQUE, ANTWERP, BELGIUM, 1977

Gordon Matta-Clark

OFFICE BAROQUE, ANTWERP, BELGIUM, 1977

Sale Date: May 17, 2018

Auction Closed

CIRCUS-CARIBBEAN ORANGE, 1978

Gordon Matta-Clark

CIRCUS-CARIBBEAN ORANGE, 1978

Sale Date: March 2, 2017

Auction Closed

Pier 52 (#5), 1975

Gordon Matta-Clark

Pier 52 (#5), 1975

Sale Date: October 7, 2016

Auction Closed

Pier 52 (#4), 1975

Gordon Matta-Clark

Pier 52 (#4), 1975

Sale Date: October 7, 2016

Auction Closed

W. ALL BE. FOR. (A W-Hole House: Datum Cut), 1973

Gordon Matta-Clark

W. ALL BE. FOR. (A W-Hole House: Datum Cut), 1973

Sale Date: June 10, 2016

Auction Closed

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