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In 1952 he started an affair with Marie-Laure de Noailles

In 1952 he started an affair with Marie-Laure de Noailles Commits suicide on 31 December 1957, slitting his wrists in the bath. Marie-Laure arranged to have him interred in the Bischoffsheim family mausoleum in the Montparnasse cemetery.

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In 1952 he started an affair with Marie-Laure de Noailles

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  1. In 1952 he started an affair with Marie-Laure de Noailles Commits suicide on 31 December 1957, slitting his wrists in the bath. Marie-Laure arranged to have him interred in the Bischoffsheim family mausoleum in the Montparnasse cemetery In 1952 he started an affair with Marie-Laure de Noailles Commits suicide on 31 December 1957, slitting his wrists in the bath. Marie-Laure arranged to have him interred in the Bischoffsheim family mausoleum in the Montparnasse cemetery

  2. Oscar Dominguez • Oscar M. Domínguez (January 3, 1906 – December 31, 1957) was a Spanishsurrealist painter. • Born in San Cristóbal de La Laguna on the island of Tenerife, Domínguez spent his youth with his grandmother in

  3. Oscar Dominguez • after suffering a serious illness which affected his growth and caused a progressive deformation of his facial bone frame and limbs. • He went to Paris at 21 where he first worked for his father in the central market of Les Halle and spent his nights drinking in cabarets. He then frequented some art schools, and visited galleries and museums.

  4. Oscar Dominguez • Domínguez was rapidly attracted by avant-garde painters, notably Yves Tanguyand Pablo Picasso whose influences were visible in his first works. At 25 he painted a self-portrait full of premonition as he showed himself with a deformed hand and with the veins of his arm cut. He chose to kill himself 27 years later by cutting his veins.

  5. Oscar Dominguez • In 1933 Domínguez met André Breton, a theoretician of Surrealism, and Paul Éluard, known as the poet of this movement, and took part a year later in the Surrealist exhibition held in Copenhagen and those of London and Tenerife in 1936

  6. Oscar Dominguez • In 1952 he started an affair with Marie-Laure de Noailles • Commits suicide on 31 December 1957, slitting his wrists in the bath. Marie-Laure arranged to have him interred in the Bischoffsheim family mausoleum in the Montparnasse cemetery

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