LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

39.45 in. (100.20 cm.) (height) by 31.81 in. (80.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Oscar Dominguez 1934' (upper left); signed and dated again 'Oscar Dominguez 1935' (lower left)

Exhibited:

Santa Cruz, Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife, La Exposición de Arte Contemporáneo, June 1936. Tel Aviv, Museum of Art, Le surréalisme, December 1966 - January 1967, no. 25. Hamburg, Kunstverein, Malerei des Surrealismus, April - May 1969, no. 37. Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Surrealism?, March - April 1970, no. 21 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Gothenburg, Konsthall, April - May 1970; Sundsvall, Sundsvall Museum, May - June 1970 and Malmö, Malmö Museum, June 1970. Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux Arts, Surréalisme, May - September 1971, no. 64. Munich, Haus der Kunst, Der Surrealismus, 1922-1942, March - May 1972, no. 112 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, June - September 1972, no. 106. Madrid, Galería Biosca, Óscar Domínguez, October - November 1973, no. 13 (illustrated). Barcelona, Galería Laietana, Óscar Domínguez, February - March 1974, no. 31 (illustrated). Bern, Kunsthalle, Junggesellenmaschinen, les machines célibataires, July - August 1975 (illustrated). Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Le siècle de Picasso, October 1988 - January 1988, no. 69 (illustrated). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, El Surrealismo entre el Viejo y Nuevo Mundo, December 1989 - February 1990 (illustrated). Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, El Surrealismo en España, October 1994 - January 1995, no. 50 (illustrated). Vienna, Kunsthalle, Das Grausame Spiel. Surrealismus in Spanien, 1924-1936, May - July 1995 (illustrated). Verona, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Dalí, Miró, Picasso e il Surrealismo Spagnolo, July - October 1995, no. 54 (illustrated). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Óscar Domínguez, Antológica 1926-1957, January - March 1996, no. 17 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Centro de Arte La Granja, April - May 1996 and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, June - September 1996. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Màquines, September - November 2000, (illustrated). London, Tate Modern, Surrealism: Desire Unbound, September 2001 - January 2002 (illustrated).

Literature:

E. Westerdahl, Óscar Domínguez, Barcelona, 1968, p. 23. Filipacchi (ed.), Óscar Domínguez, Paris, 1973 (illustrated p. 21). F. Castro, Óscar Domínguez y el Surrealismo, Madrid, 1978, no. VII, pp. 87 & 118. Exh. cat., 10x Max Ernst, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen,Dusseldorf, 1978 (illustrated p. 35). R. de Sosa, Óscar Domínguez: l'oeuvre peint, catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Paris, 1989, no. 7, p. 32 (illustrated). A. Zaya, Óscar Domínguez, Canarias, 1992 (illustrated p. 146). V. Bozal, Arte del siglo XX en España, Madrid, 1995 (illustrated p. 591).

Provenance:

Eduardo Westerdahl, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Galerie André-François Petit, Paris (no. D.491). Galeria Biosca, Madrid (no. 150). Private collection, Spain, by whom acquired from the above circa 1975; sale, Christie's, London, 24 June 2008, lot 74 (USD 2,940,974). Acquired at the above sale by the present owner. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2008-2012, on loan from the above.