Art of the 20th Century

 

Art Styles in 20th century Art Map



 

Oscar Dominguez





 

Oscar Dominguez

(b La Laguna, Tenerife, 7 Jan 1906; d Paris, 31 Dec 1957).

Spanish painter and sculptor, active in France. He first lived in Paris in 1927 while working for his family’s banana export business, coming into contact there with avant-garde groups and from 1929 undergoing the influence of Surrealism. Typical of the dreamlike and highly sexual early works that formed the basis of his first one-man exhibition, held in May 1933 at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Tenerife, is Surrealist Landscape (1933; Tenerife, E. Westerdahl priv. col.).