Oscar Dominguez Spanish Surrealist Still Life

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Oscar M. Dominguez (1906-1957) Surrealist still life in front of a window. Lithograph on paper. The piece is signed lower … Read more Oscar M. Dominguez (1906-1957) Surrealist still life in front of a window. Lithograph on paper. The piece is signed lower left in pencil, Dominguez and an edition of 137/200. Blind stamp in lower right corner. A hard to find piece from an extremely gifted and talented European Surrealist. The colors are still very vibrant and is a good, strong image.

Good overall condition with no visible rips, tears, staining or restorations. The framing treatment consists of the work on paper matted and under glass with a simple wood molding with gold accent. The piece has not been inspected out of the frame.

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Oscar M. Dominguez (January 3, 1906 - December 31, 1957) was a Spanish surrealist painter. Born in San Cristóbal de La Laguna on the island of Tenerife, Domínguez spent his youth with his grandmother in Tacoronte and devoted himself to painting at a young age after suffering a serious illness which affected his growth and caused a progressive deformation of his facial bone frame and limbs.

He went to Paris at 21 where he first worked for his father in the central market of Les Halles, and spent his nights drinking in cabarets. He then frequented some art schools, and visited galleries and museums.

Dominguez was rapidly attracted by avant-garde painters, notably Yves Tanguy and Pablo Picasso, whose influences were visible in his first works. At 25 he painted a self-portrait full of premonition as he showed himself with a deformed hand and with the veins of his arm cut. He chose to kill himself 27 years later by cutting his veins.

In 1933, Domínguez met André Breton, a theoretician of Surrealism, and Paul Éluard, known as the poet of this movement, and took part a year later in the Surrealist exhibition held in Copenhagen and those of London and Tenerife in 1936.

He took up the Russian-invented technique of decalcomania* in 1936, using gouache* spread thinly on a sheet of paper or other surface (glass has been used), which is then pressed onto another surface such as a canvas. See less