Electro-sexual sewing machine

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: private collection.

Briefly about the painting:

Dominguez created one of his most famous paintings after meeting Andre Breton and the circle of Parisian surrealists, whose ideology inspired the artist to create canvases in the style that was new for him. The plot of the work echoes Bosch’s painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, which contains a scene of physical punishment in one part of the painting. The anxious and gloomy atmosphere of this work of art conveys the feelings of the artist, who had physical disabilities and suffered a suicidal complex all his life. The source for the name of the painting was one of the works of cult for Surrealists writer Count Lautréamont, who wrote about one of his heroes, “He is as beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.”