JAN MATULKA: THE MYSTERY PAINTINGS
An exhibition of works by Jan Matulka
June 22, 2018 - August 11, 2018
Czech/American modernist Jan Matulka (1890-1972) stopped exhibiting publicly in 1943, yet lived another 29 years in a small New York City apartment. During that time he produced an amazing body of bold abstractions based on both his own experiences with Cubism, Synchronism and Surrealism and an awareness of the new movement – Abstract Expressionism – taking root downtown on 10th St. These previously unknown canvases show a reclusive yet brilliant artist in the fullness of his powers. McCormick Gallery has represented the esatate of Jan Matulka for twenty-five years and these works have never been shown before. A forty page catalog with an essay by historian Henry Adams is available.


Purist Composition, c. 1923
gouache on paper
16 x 12 inches
signed at lower right; estate stamped verso
#11176

Abstraction, 1930-40
oil on canvas
30 x 25 inches
#729

Abstraction, 1940-50
oil on canvas
48 x 36 inches
estate stamped verso
#11337

Abstraction, 1940-50
oil on canvas
44 x 36 inches
estate stamped verso
#11339

Abstraction, 1940-50
oil on canvas
31 x 26 inches
signed on stretcher bar; estate stamped verso
#11346

Untitled Abstraction, 1940-50
oil on board
23 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches
estate stamped verso
#11708