Oscar Dominguez, Spanish surrealist painter, marked the 20th century history of art.

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His first surrealist paintings date back to 1932, but it was only two years later that the artist officially joined André Breton's group. In 1935, he invited his companions to exhibit on his native island of Tenerife, marking the beginning of a five-year collaboration. From 1941 to 1944, Dominguez worked as an illustrator for the publication The Feather Hand alongside Paul Éluard, René Magritte and Pablo Picasso in order to maintain the activity of the Surrealist despite the Occupation during the Second World War.

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In 1943, his first solo exhibition was organized at the Louis Carré Gallery, with a preface by Éluard. The encounter with Picasso and the influence of Giorgio de Chirico profoundly transformed his pictorial conception, which led him to be excluded from the Surrealist group after the war.

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The death of Éluard in 1952 had a devastating impact on Dominguez, who developed an obsession with the theme of death. Faced with the failure of his last exhibition, the artist committed suicide in his studio in Montparnasse.