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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 17, 2025 | Sotheby's | London | Pauline Karpidas: The London Collection Evening Auction | 42 | $****** - ****** | Exacte sensibilité | |||
May 20, 1994 | Boisgirard - Antonini | Paris | Modern Oil Paintings, Watercolours & Sculpture | 103 | Estimates not disclosed | Exacte sensibilite |
paintings
69 x 117 x 12 cm (27.17 x 46.06 x 4.72 in)
oil on canvas with plaster, iron pipe, metal rod, spatula, plastic and sphere in the artist"s frame
signed Oscar Dominguez and dated 1935 (lower right)
Marcel Jean, Paris
Estate of Marcel Jean, Paris (acquired from the above by 1993)
C. Boisgirard, Paris, 20 May 1994, lot 103 (consigned by the above)
Faggionato Fine Arts, London (acquired from the above sale)
Acquired from the above on 24 June 1994 by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Charles Ratton, Exposition Surréaliste d"Objets , 1936, n.n.
Marcel Jean, Histoire de la peinture surréaliste , Paris, 1959, p. 245, illustrated in an earlier state; pp. 247 and 372
José Corti, Dictionnaire abrégé du Surréalisme , Paris, 1969, p. 47, illustrated in an earlier state (detail)
Fernando Castro, Óscar Domínguez y el Surrealismo , Madrid, 1978, nos. 32-33, p. 121, illustrated in an earlier state
Haim N. Finkelstein, Surrealism and the Crisis of the Object , Ann Arbor, 1979, p. 62
Gaëtan Picon, Journal du surréalisme 1919-1939 , Geneva, 1981, p. 152
Exh. Cat., Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno; Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Centro de Arte “La Granja” and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Óscar Domínguez 1926 Antològica 1957 , 1996, no. 25, p. 110, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Marseille, Musée Cantini, La Part du jeu et du rêve Óscar Domínguez el le surréalisme 1906-1957 , 2005, fig. 55, p. 51, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Óscar Domínguez: una existencia de papel , 2011, p. 130, illustrated in an earlier state
Óscar Domínguez
1906 - 1957
Exacte sensibilité
signed Oscar Dominguez and dated 1935 (lower right)
oil on canvas with plaster, iron pipe, metal rod, spatula, plastic and sphere in the artist"s frame
54 by 90 cm. 21¼ by 35½ in.
artist"s frame (with collage elements): 69 by 117 by 12 cm. 27⅛ by 46 by 4¾ in.
Executed in 1935.
The Asociación en Defensa de Óscar Domínguez, e Isidro Hernández, Curator of the Óscar Domínguez Collection (Tenerife), have confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Formerly in the collection of Marcel Jean.
