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ÓSCAR DOMÍNGUEZ (1906-1958)
Le minotaure amirale
signed and dated 'Dominguez 51' (lower right)
oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 13 in. (40.9 x 33 cm.)
Painted in 1951
Provenance
Galerie de France, Paris.
Galerie Moos, Zurich.
Private collection; sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 February 2007, lot 378.
Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco.
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 2007.
Literature
J.C. Guerra Cabrera, Óscar Domínguez, Obra, contexto y tragedia, Canary Islands, 2020, p. 268 (illustrated fig. 229).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie de France, Exposition Óscar Domínguez, February - March 1951.
Zurich, Galerie Moos, Ausstellung Óscar Domínguez, May 1951.
Geneva, Galerie Georges Moos, Exposition Óscar Domínguez, June - July 1951, no. 1.
Turin, Palazzo Belle Arti, Parco del Valentino, Pittori d'Oggi, Francia - Italia, September - October 1953 (illustrated).
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L’Asociación de Expertos y Herederos en Defensa de Óscar Domínguez and Isidro Hernández, curator of the Óscar Domínguez Collection (Tenerife), confirmed the authenticity of this work.