Domingo Milella

Print 42 x 52.5 cm. 16 1/2 x 20 5/8 in.

Frame 45 x 55.5 cm. 17 3/4 x 21 7/8 in.

Edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP

Directly from the artist studio

Sotheby's Maison, Hong Kong, Domingo Milella LIMINAL, 10 June – 20 August 2026

Middle Upper Paleolithic (ca. 30,000–20,000 years ago)

This view (like work #0802) shows a detail of what is known as the “corner of the tectiforms” in the El Castillo Cave (Cantabria), one of the most remarkable sites of Paleolithic cave art. Hidden on the side of a low gallery, the small space is covered with painted (and some engraved) depictions that combine compositions of rows of dots and compartmentalized quadrangular figures, divided internally into three fields by lines or borders, characteristic of the central part of the Cantabrian region. The excellent quality of the photograph allows us to clearly see how the artists prepared the pigment into a paste and applied it with their fingertips, and how, in the case of the quadrangular figures, they ran their fingers over the paint again to form linear strokes in which, nevertheless, the earlier fingerprints are still visible.