Óscar Domínguez (1906-1958)

Erotica

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Óscar Domínguez (1906-1958)
Erotica
signed and dated 'Domínguez 54' (lower left); inscribed 'EROTICA' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
51 1/4 x 61 1/8 in. (130.5 x 155.5 cm.)
Painted in 1954

Baron & Baroness J.B. Urvater, Brussels.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004.

Paris, Salon d'Automne, Peinture, sculpture, dessin, gravure, livre, arts, appliqués, November 1954, no. 574.
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Óscar Dominguez, June - September 1955, no. 52.
Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, Collection Urvater, June - September 1957, no. 19 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Liège, Musée des Beaux-Arts.
Belgrade & Zagreb, Nadrealisti, Apstraktni, Zbirka Urvater, 1959, no. 19.
Marseille, Musée Cantini, La Part du jeu et du rêve: Óscar Dominguez et la surréalisme 1906-1957, June - October 2005, p. 39 (illustrated fig. 37).
Oostkamp, Stichting Kunstboek, Urvater: histoire d'une collection, 2013, no. 107, pp. 211 & 125 (illustrated p. 125).

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Isidro Hernández Gutiérrez, curator of the Óscar Domínguez Collection, Tenerife, and the Comisión Consultiva de Expertos y en Defensa de la Obra de Óscar Domínguez (CEDOOC), confirmed the authenticity of this work.

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