Óscar Domínguez (1906-1957), Muerte del Torero (recto); Femme à la bicyclette (verso)

Óscar Domínguez (1906-1957)
Muerte del Torero (recto); Femme à la bicyclette (verso)
signed and dated 'Oscar Dominguez - 35' (lower left)
oil over copper plate (recto) in the artist's painted frame with a toreador plastic toy; copper engraving plate (verso)
Copper plate: 6½ x 10 in. (16.6 x 25.4 cm.)
Artist?s frame: 11 1/8 x 14½ in. (28.1 x 36.6 cm.)
Painted in 1935 (recto); Executed in 1935 (verso)

Provenance

Private collection, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist circa 1935, and thence by descent; sale, Christie?s, London, The art of the Surreal, 9 February 2011, lot 105.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION