Óscar Domínguez

Le Plus clair du temps

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November 21, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Bid

300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Exquisite Corpus: Surrealist Treasures from a Private Collection

Óscar Domínguez

1906 - 1957

Le Plus clair du temps

signed O. Dominguez and dated - 43 - (lower right)

oil on canvas

28 ¾ by 23 ⅝ in.

73 by 60 cm.

Executed in 1943.

The Committee in Defense of Óscar Domínguez and Isidro Hernández, the curator of Óscar Domínguez Collection, have confirmed the authenticity of this work.

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York

Acquired by 1997 by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Dominguez, 1943

Marseille, Musée Cantini, La Part du jeu et du rêve: Óscar Domínguez et le surréalisme 1906-1957, 2005, no. 69; pp. 144 and 218, illustrated in color; pp. 186-67, illustrated in color (detail) (titled Le Plus clair du temps I)