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Oscar Dominguez
Description
- Oscar Dominguez
- Batalla or La vole lion (The Battle or The Fighting Lion)
- signed Dominguez (upper right)
- oil on canvas
- 64.5 by 91.5cm., 25 3/8 by 36in.
Provenance
Galleria Levi, Milan (acquired in 1940)
Acoris, The Surrealist Art Centre, London
Sale: Ader, Tajan, 20th March 1990, lot 97
Galería Edurne, Madrid
Galería Vegueta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Literature
Condition
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Catalogue Note
Breton celebrated, among many others, the energised quality of Domínguez’s compositions in his 1939 Des tendances les plus récentes de la peinture surréaliste. Domínguez, he described, was a painter who could, 'with a movement of the arm as unstudied and quick as that of a window cleaner or the worker who, with the house finished, signs his name in blanc d'Espagne, use his brush to add diverse colours, stroke by stroke, and succeed in defining new spaces – barely marked or hinted at – that transport us into those realms of pure fascination that have remained unvisited since, as children, we contemplated colour images of meteors in books' (André Breton quoted in La Part du jeu et du rêve. Oscar Domínguez et le surréalisme 1906-1957 (exhibition catalogue), Musée Cantini, Marseille, 2005, p. 199, translated from the French).