OSCAR DOMINGUEZ | Le Souvenir de l'avenir (illustration for La Trajectoire du rêve by André Breton) - recto verso

Private collection, France
Guy Lévis Mano, France
Sale: Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 31 January 2014, lot 73
Natalie Seroussi, Paris

Ana Vázquez de Parga, José Pierre, Emmanuel Guigon, Nilo Palenzuela, Fernando Castro, Pavel Stepánek, Mónica Merino, Oscar Dominguez, Antológica 1926 – 1957 (exhibition catalogue: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno; Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Centro de Arte 'La Granja' & Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia), 1996, illustrated p. 24
Isidro Hernández (éd.), Óscar Domínguez: una existencia de papel, Madrid, 2011, illustrated p. 154

Executed on cream wove thick paper, not laid down, affixed to the overmount at several points. The edges are slightly unevenly cut. Recto: Floating in its mount. The extreme edges are very slightly scuffed (not visible when framed). There is a faint handling mark towards the centre of the lower edge. There is a small faint spot of discolouration towards the lower right corner. The sheet is slightly light stained. Verso: It has not been possible to examine the work entirely unframed. There are two small spots of glue and paper remnants towards the centre of right and left edges. There are a few media marks, possibly original, around the black shape. The sheet is slightly light stained. This work is in overall very good condition.
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This work is an illustration for a poem by Georges Hugnet titled "Les revenants futurs" in La trajectoire du rêve by André Breton (Septième cahier, Paris, 1938, p.103).

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comisión Consultiva de Expertos y en defensa de la Obra de Óscar Domínguez (CEDOOC).
Ana Vázquez de Parga has confirmed the authenticity of this work.