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...hardest job for a painter in Paris is to be original; the next hardest job is to be wilder and woollier than one's associates. Oscar Dominguez achieves the No. 2 aim with distinction. His latest works, on exhibition in a Paris gallery this week, prove that when he settles down before an easel, Dominguez can be wild in a mighty workmanlike...
Hits of the show are twelve geometrically patterned pictures of bullfights, which Dominguez painted in three weeks. Done with a few simple lines and clear colors, they recall bullfight scenes painted by Dominguez' good friend, Picasso. One well-disposed critic got around their obvious derivation by reporting that Dominguez "has fully developed a theme which Picasso merely sketched in earlier years." Another wrote, a little more accurately, that Dominguez' new paintings are "works of extreme precision and perfect elegance...
Beginning with Bananas. His Montparnasse studio is precisely and elegantly arranged, too, but no one would apply these words to 45-year-old Artist Dominguez himself. Ham-handed and heavy-maned, he does a great deal of painting and even more cavorting. In the course of his career he has cavorted through successively popular School-of-Paris styles...
Burgeoning with a Breast. Dominguez graduated from the student-artist class the day he met Surrealist Andre Breton in 1935. Breton introduced him to the surrealist round table at the Cafe de la Place Blanche, where, in the course of fevered discussions with Picasso and Paul Eluard, he hit on some weird and wonderful notions. Dominguez rose to prominence in the group by such creations as a bas-relief of a horse inextricably tangled with a bicycle, and a "gramophone" with a forefinger in place of a needle and a female breast for a turntable...
Credit Risk. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Josefa Dominguez, 40. demanded maintenance for herself and ten children from her common law husband, who wanted more children when he had "not paid the doctor for the last three...