Over the weekend the Los Angeles County Museum of Art continued to expand its Latin American holdings in a way both monumental and pertinent to the city. According to the museum’s blog, Unframed, Roberto Matta’s huge 1965-66 painting “Burn, Baby, Burn (L’escalade)” was acquired for the museum by the Collectors Committee. The canvas is nearly 10 feet tall and 32 feet wide, which would likely make it the largest painting in LACMA’s collection.
LACMA Acquires a Monumental Matta (Culture Monster/LA Times)
