The horrors of war.

Drawing, Chinese ink, 26,8 x 20,9 cm, vellum paper, signed and dated in ink at lower right corner "Dominguez '45" (some min. creases).

Oscar Dominguez was one of the leading Surrealist artists of Spain. He went to Paris at the age of 21 where he spent his nights diving in cabarets. He was rapidly attracted by avant-garde painters, notably Yves Tanguy and Pablo Picasso, whose influences were visible in his first works. Stylistically this Spanish avant-garde artist has more in common with Picasso, Paul Éluard and André Breton than he does with his compatriot Dali. This sheet, part of a series of drawings on the horrors of the Second World War, can be seen as a response to Picasso's Guernica.