A Surreal Painting by Dominican Artist Iván Tovar

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Dominican Surrealist Iván Tovar invites us to follow him through the maze of his imagination... until the point of getting lost. Iván Tovar (1942-2020), La Serrure (The Lock), 1969, oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm/31.88 x 39.37 in.Estimate: €60,000/80,000 On November 15, Drouot Estimations presented a painting by Iván Tovar entitled La Pierre cachée (The Hidden Stone) 1975. The painting garnered €281,250, a nice surprise, and earned the auction house another work: La Serrure. Tovar executed La Serrure (The Lock) in 1969, six years before The Hidden Stone, and just as many years after the artist had settled in Paris for an extended period. In 1969, he had his

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