Iván Tovar , born in 1942 in San Francisco de Macorís in the Dominican Republic , is a painter and printmaker who is linked to neo- surrealism . Biography From 1963 to 1983, he lives and works in Paris . He began exhibiting at the Paris Biennale (1963, 1 st exposed Dominican artist), then Luxembourg , Stockholm , Lisbon and New York . His best-known compositions express on large, colorful surfaces chimerical figures, both anthropomorphic and animal, almost biomechanical, which sometimes recall the world of Yves Tanguy or Richard Lindner .