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Artist or Maker: Oscar Domínguez (1906-1958)
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Provenance: Galerie André-François Petit, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1966.
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Exhibited: Knokke-le-Zoute, André de Rache, Schatten van het Surrealisme, Trésors du Surréalisme, 1968, no. 43 (illustrated p. 41).
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Oscar Domínguez, Antológica 1926-1957, January - March 1996, no. 76 (illustrated p. 160); this exhibition later travelled to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Centro de Arte "La Granja", April - May 1996, and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, June - September 1996.
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Literature: E. Westerdahl, Oscar Domínguez, Madrid, 1971, p. 54 (illustrated).
F. Castro, Oscar Domínguez y el Surrealismo, Madrid, 1978, no. 98 (illustrated p. 132).
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Notes: THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
The sculptural form of Femme couchée, at once both rounded and angular, strongly recalls the reclining figure of Femme sur un divan (lot 81). Executed at around the same time, and strikingly similar in pose, both works seem to share the same preoccupations with volume and form; in fact the present work may well represent an attempt to resolve in three dimensions the questions posed by the 1942 oil, so similar are they in lyrical movement. Domínguez was one of the first members of the Surrealist movement to create Surrealist objects; from 1934 his constructed objects betray a sensitivity to working in three dimensions, as well as the potential for the interplay of sculptural forms that the present work displays. The sculptures produced in the 1940s often have detachable parts; the present work comprises three separate moving parts.
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