Herbert Matter

Swiss | 1907 - 1984

Herbert Matter was a Swiss photographer who was born in 1907. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Poster House have featured Herbert Matter's work in the past.Herbert Matter's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 197 USD to 18,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2000 the record price for this artist at auction is 18,000 USD for MURAL FROM THE FIFTH-FLOOR RECEPTION AREA OF THE SEAGRAM BUILDING, NEW YORK, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2004. Herbert Matter has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Aesthetica in August 2021. The artist died in 1984.

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America Calling

By Herbert Matter

Kaminski Auctions

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Notable Lots

Only Full Days Make Full Records Matter The Perfect Finish No Jobs Done Till All Done - Herbert Matter

Only Full Days Make Full Records Matter The Perfect Finish No Jobs Done Till All Done ,1929

By Herbert Matter

Still Life (Ray Eames Sculpture) - Herbert Matter

Still Life (Ray Eames Sculpture) ,1943

By Herbert Matter

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WINTER - LUFTVERKEHR. .

By Herbert Matter

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PKZ. 1928. ,1928

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Louisa and Alexander Calder, Roxbury, Conn. - Herbert Matter

Louisa and Alexander Calder, Roxbury, Conn. ,1940

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She and Her Shadow (Jones Beach) - Herbert Matter

She and Her Shadow (Jones Beach) ,1939

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Past Exhibitions

The Atomic age. Artists put to the test of history

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris

16e | Paris | France

Oct 11,2024 - Feb 09,2025

Crosscurrents. Selections from the Permanent Collection

Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center

East Hampton | New York | USA

May 02,2024 - Jul 07,2024

Art Deco: Commercializing The Avant-Garde

Poster House

Chelsea | New York | USA

Sep 28,2023 - Feb 25,2024

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Articles

Aesthetica 09/08/2021

How do you create an original image? It鈥檚 a question that is hard to grapple with in the digital age, when 95 million photos are uploaded to Instagram

Aperture 11/05/2021

An exhibition at the Jewish Museum shows how the American magazine has been a force since the 1930s, with photography defining the 鈥渕odern look鈥� of a new era.

ArtDaily 05/04/2021

The Jewish Museum presents Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine, an exhibition exploring how photography, graphic design, and popular magazines converged to transform American visual culture from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Matter's work isn't easily categorized since he worked as a photographer and as a graphic designer for a span of almost 50 years... 鈥�
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Gitterman Gallery

鈥� ..Matter鈥檚 intimate portraits of Mercedes are the visual results of a thrilling act by an artist and lover, a dance of seduction with the camera, Mercedes鈥� energy and allure... 鈥�
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