Oscar Domínguez (1906-1957), La vague

Oscar Domínguez (1906-1957)
La vague
signed and dated 'OSCAR DOMÍNGUEZ 1938' (lower right); signed, numbered and inscribed 'DOMÍNGUEZ VAGUE 5' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 18 1/4 in. (55 x 46.2 cm.)
Painted in 1938

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Provenance
Vicomtesse Marie-Laure de Noailles, Paris, by 1953.
Anonymous sale, Hôtel des Chevau-Légers, Versailles, 21 June 1962, lot 6.
Private collection, Cannes, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Cannes Enchères, Cannes, 25 June 2006, lot 188.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature
I. Hernández, 'Crisálidas que viajan a través de los tiempos', in exh. cat., Cosmos: En busca de los orígenes, de Kupka a Kubrick, Tenerife, 2008, p. 251 (illustrated p. 250).

Exhibited
Ostend, Kursaal, Art Fantastique, July - August 1953, no. 43, n.p..
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Óscar Domínguez, November 1955, no. 1 (dated '1935').
Rome, Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano, Dada e Surrealiasmo riscoperti, October 2009 - February 2010, p. 295 (illustrated).
Tenerife, Espacio de las Artes, Óscar Domínguez: Una existencia de papel, February - October 2011, pp. 33 & 372 (illustrated p. 35; illustrated in situ pp. 214 & 216 and illustrated on the cover).