Roberto Domingo Paris 1883 Madrid 1956 “Principe de

Roberto Domingo Paris 1883 Madrid 1956 “Principe de
Roberto Domingo (Paris 1883 Madrid 1956) “ Principe de España”. Oil on board 41 x 52 cm with the title at the back “Principe de España”.ROBERTO DOMINGO(Paris, 1883 – Madrid, 1956)Roberto Domingo Fallola (Paris, 1883 – Madrid, 1956). He is the son and pupil of Francisco Domingo Marqués, a leading figure in the Spanish art colony in Paris. His childhood, and much of his youth was spent in the city on the Seine, where he frequented artistic circles and had a close relationship with Parisian artists. Early on he showed great aptitude for drawing, improving his skills acquired in the shadow of his father, under whose training he started painting “things around the house.” In 1906 he moved to Madrid and becomes a student of Muñoz Degrain at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando, which he leaves after a short while. In 1908 he celebrated his first solo exhibition in the shop of furniture maker Jose Suarez on the Carrera de San Jeronimo. In 1912 his work is shown at the Sala Parés in Barcelona; in 1913 he shows sixty pieces in Madrid, and in 1914 he held an exhibition at the Baillie Gallery in London, having great success, being encouraged by the painters Sargent and Gerald Nelly, who buy his work. In 1915 the Spanish State acquires one of his paintings entitled “el color”. In 1917 he returns to London at the Tooth Gallery, and that same year, exhibited his work in Munich, Barcelona, Bilbao and San Sebastian. From then until 1957, when he has his last show posthumously at the Sala Toison in Madrid, he only has shown in 1923, 1940, and 1944 in the capital of Spain. In his painting themes include bullfighting, where detail comes to life and movement without losing their entire submission to the drawing. The different cape passes, the bullfighter’s team entering the ring, the “picadores” placing the pick, the mules dragging the dead bull, and the butchers skinning the beast provide him with a repertoire of varied topics, rich in excitement, but that could only be approached with great skills as a draftsman and improviser. He learned from his father the need to balance the compositions with rhythm and discontinuous lines. His rapid technique, on paper or cardboard, led him to capture the immediacy of the different works expressing movement with short brush strokes, managing to suggest the grace of outline or corporeal sense of volume. Within this theme sticks out “suerte de varas”, painted in gouache, with which in 1908 he won the third prize at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts. In 1910, he attains the second prize at the National Fine Arts. In 1911, he participates in the Exhibition of Fine Arts in Rome, selling all of his exhibited works. In 1915, he was awarded a second prize at the International Exhibition of Buenos Aires and in 1916, is awarded the knighthood of the Order of Carlos III. To his bullfighting theme also belongs the excellent canvas entitled “Enclosing the flock”, which is preserved in the Museum of Fine Arts San Pio V of Valencia. In the same vein, with equal clarity and exact skill with color, done in oils, watercolors, and gouache, he depicts military themes- charges, parades, and battles- permeated with emotion and excitement of the best color and style of the impressionist school. He created a style endowed with great movement and color strength. He cultivated the bullfight poster as an art form and illustrated in various newspapers of Madrid such as “Libertad” and “ABC”. After his death, the presence of his works has been a constant in group exhibitions and anthologies and at the most important auction houses.

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