Artist: Oscar Dominguez (French, 1906 - 1958).
Title: "El toro".
Medium: Gouache and crayon drawing on paper.
Date: Composed 1945.
Dimensions: Overall size: 9 x 9 7/8 in. (229 x 251 mm). Image size: 9 x 9 7/8 in. (229 x 251 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed and dated in pencil, lower right recto; collector's ink stamp (red letter 'B') lower right recto; collector ink stamps, verso. Painted on stiff cream wove paper. Very good to fine condition; would be fine save for creases in the upper left and right corners and notebook holes upper edge. Provenance: If you have a genuine interest in bidding on this work kindly send an email to:
[email protected] for provenance information and additional image(s). Comment(s): Domínguez was a Spanish artist best known for his loosely rendered Surrealist paintings. Influenced by avant-garde European painters such as René Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, and Yves Tanguy, he employed bizarre subject matter to great effect. Domínguez, like Max Ernst, often used a technique called decalcomania. A transfer process developed for engravers around 1750, decalcomania shifts paint from thin sheets of glass onto canvas or paper. His works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. Image copyright © Oscar Domínguez / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. [30230-2-6000]