Iván TOVAR (1942–2020) Abstract Composition, 1970 Mixed media on cardboard...
Iván TOVAR (1942–2020)
Abstract Composition, 1970
Mixed media on cardboard
Signed and dated lower right
27 x 21 cm
The condition report is available upon request at the following email address: contact@neo-encheres.com
We would like to thank Ms. Daniela Tovar for confirming the authenticity of this work.
PROVENANCE
French private collection. This work belonged to a friend of the artist, a food critic, and was later inherited.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Iván Tovar was born in 1942 in San Francisco de Macorís, in the Dominican Republic. After graduating from the National School of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo in 1959, he began exhibiting that same year in the capital, and later in Puerto Rico. A scholarship from the Alliance Française brought him to Paris in 1963; he was the first Dominican artist to participate in the Paris Biennale and became friends with the Spanish painter Antonio Saura. It was in the Parisian art scene that he became aware of Surrealism and developed his own distinctive style: organic, fluid, and absurd forms—sometimes thorny or erotic—set against backgrounds of great clarity.
For two decades, he exhibited in Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, Lisbon, and New York, before returning to his homeland in the 1980s and setting up his studio there. Recognized as the Dominican painter whose work has been most widely exhibited abroad and as a leading figure in Caribbean surrealism, he received the National Prize for Visual Arts in 2018. He died in Santo Domingo in 2020.
Iván TOVAR (1942–2020)
Abstract Composition, 1970
Mixed media on cardboard
Signed and dated lower right
27 x 21 cm
The condition report is available upon request at the following email address: contact@neo-encheres.com
We would like to thank Ms. Daniela Tovar for confirming the authenticity of this work.
PROVENANCE
French private collection. This work belonged to a friend of the artist, a food critic, and was later inherited.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Iván Tovar was born in 1942 in San Francisco de Macorís, in the Dominican Republic. After graduating from the National School of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo in 1959, he began exhibiting that same year in the capital, and later in Puerto Rico. A scholarship from the Alliance Française brought him to Paris in 1963; he was the first Dominican artist to participate in the Paris Biennale and became friends with the Spanish painter Antonio Saura. It was in the Parisian art scene that he became aware of Surrealism and developed his own distinctive style: organic, fluid, and absurd forms—sometimes thorny or erotic—set against backgrounds of great clarity.
For two decades, he exhibited in Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, Lisbon, and New York, before returning to his homeland in the 1980s and setting up his studio there. Recognized as the Dominican painter whose work has been most widely exhibited abroad and as a leading figure in Caribbean surrealism, he received the National Prize for Visual Arts in 2018. He died in Santo Domingo in 2020.
