REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963) - photo 1

REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)

Lot 106
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Lot 106 | REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)
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REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)

Niño y mariposa (Niño triste)

signed 'R. VARO' (lower right)

oil on Masonite

21 ¼ x 12 1⁄8 in. (54 x 30.8 cm.)

Painted in 1961





Provenance

Galería Juan Martín, Mexico City.

Agustín Guevara Alas, Mexico, by 1966.

Private collection, Mexico, by 1994.

Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.

Acquired from the above by the present owners.



Literature

E. de Champourcin, 'La pintura alucinante y perfecta de Remedios Varo' in Gaceta Social de México, September 1964 (illustrated).

O. Paz & R. Caillois, Remedios Varo, Mexico, 1966, no. 64, p. 177 (illustrated pl. 64).

E. Jaguer, Remedios Varo, Mexico, 1980, p. 57 (illustrated).

'La pintura surrealista de Remedios Varo', in Siempre! La Cultura en México, Mexico, December 1983 (illustrated).

B. Morris, 'El surrealismo extragaláctico de la pintora de Remedios Varo', in Turia, Teruel, October 1992.

R. Ovalle, Remedios Varo: catalogue raisonné, Mexico, 2008, no. 319, p. 368 (illustrated p. 264).

E. de Diego, Remedios Varo, Madrid, 2007, p. 95 (illustrated).

J. A. Gil & M. Rivera, Remedios Varo: El hilo invisible, Mexico, 2015, p. 128 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Mexico City, Galería Juan Martín, Óleos recientes de Remedios Varo, June 1962.

Mexico City, Galerías Excélsior, Segundo salón de la plástica feminina, February 1962.

Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Palacio de Bellas Artes, La obra de Remedios Varo, August 1964, no. 88.

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Obra de Remedios Varo 1913-1963, October - November 1971, no. 49.

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Remedios Varo 1913-1963, August 1983, no. 56.

Madrid, Fundación Banco Exterior, Remedios Varo, November 1988 - January 1989, no. 64 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Monterrey, Museo de Monterrey, March 1989.

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Remedios Varo, February - June 1994, no. 141 (illustrated).

Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Remedios Varo, June 1999, no. 48, p. 105 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Nagoya, Denki Bunka Kaikan, July - August 1999; and Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, October - November 1999.

Washington D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Magic of Remedios Varo, February - May 2000, p. 117 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, June - August 2000.

San Francisco, Gallery Wendi Norris, Remedios Varo: Encuentros, May - July 2023, pp. 55, 57, 59, & 61 (illustrated).



Further Details

We are grateful to Dr. Salomon Grimberg for his assistance cataloguing this work.
Artist:Remedios Varo (1908 - 1963)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Art style:Surrealism
Place of origin:Europe, Spain
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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