Óscar Domínguez
La Machine à écrire ou Le Jeu de la logique
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Óscar Domínguez
(1906 - 1957)
La Machine à écrire ou Le Jeu de la logique
signed Oscar Dominguéz and dated 38 (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 ¼ by 31 ½ in. 64.2 by 80.2 cm.
Executed in 1938.
The Asociación en Defensa de Óscar Domínguez, e Isidro Hernández, Curator of the Óscar Domínguez Collection (Tenerife), have confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, Paris (acquired from the artist circa 1938)
Galerie André Petit, Paris
Private Collection
Sotheby’s, London, 3 July 1973, lot 101 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by 1978 by the present owner
Oslo, Kunstnerforbundet, International nutidskunst, 1938, no. 11 (titled Loggikens leg)
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paul Eluard et ses amis peintres, 1982-83
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, 1999, vol. I, no. 69, p. 129, illustrated in color
Marseille, Musée Cantini, La part du jeu et du rêve: Óscar Domínguez et le surréalisme 1906-1957, 2005, no. 40; p. 40
Fernando Castro Borrego, Óscar Domínguez y el surrealismo, Madrid, 1978, p. 127, illustrated
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, p. 40, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, Éxodo hacia el Sur. Óscar Domínguez y el Automatismo Absoluto 1938-1942, 2006, p. 68, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Paris, Instituto Cervantes, El surrealismo volcánico, 2006, p. 78, illustrated in color
José Carlos Guerra Cabrera, Obra, contexto y tragedia, Islas Canarias, 2020, p. 52, illustrated in color
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