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REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)

Lot 45
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Lot 45 | REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)
Estimate value
$ 1 200 000 – 1 800 000
REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)
Energía cósmica (Inspiración)
signed 'R. Varo' (lower right)
gouache on board
12 3/8 x 12 1/8 in. (31.4 x 30.8 cm.)
Painted in 1956




Provenance

Jacques de Veyrac, Mexico City.
Florence Van der Kemp, Versailles.
Donato G. Alarcón, Mexico City.
Ricardo Ovalle, Mexico City (acquired from the above, circa 1990).
By descent from the above to the present owner, 1994.



Literature

C. Jiménez, "El surrealismo en América" in Arte en Colombia, no. 45, October 1990, p. 77 (illustrated in color; titled Inspiración).
R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo: Catálogo razonado, Mexico City, 1994, p. 136, no. 162 (illustrated in color).
R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo: Catálogo razonado, Mexico City, 1998, p. 136, no. 162 (illustrated in color).
R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo: Catálogo razonado, Mexico City, 2002, p. 196, no. 162 (illustrated in color).
K. Vanden Berghe and M. Van Delden, El laberinto de la solidaridad: Cultura y política en México (1910-2000), Amsterdam, 2002, vol. 2, p. 80, no. 11 (illustrated).
R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo: Catálogo razonado, Mexico City, 2008, p. 196, no. 162 (illustrated in color).
T. Arcq and C. Haskell, Remedios Varo: Science Fictions, Chicago, 2023, p. 50 (illustrated in color).



Exhibited

Madrid, Fundación Banco Exterior and Museo de Monterrey, Remedios Varo, November 1988-March 1989, no. 23 (illustrated in color; titled Inspiración).
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno and Madrid, Fundación Mapfre, El surrealismo entre viejo y nuevo mundo, December 1989-April 1990, p. 197 (illustrated in color; titled Inspiración).
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Remedios Varo, February-June 1994, p. 51, no. 61 (illustrated in color).
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Nagoya, Denki Bunka Kaikan and Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, Remedios Varo, June-November 1999, p. 62, no. 16 (illustrated in color).
Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts and Chicago, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, The Magic of Remedios Varo, February-August 2000, p. 89 (illustrated in color).
Chichester, Pallant House Gallery and Norwich, Sainsbury Centre, Surreal Friends: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, and Kati Horna, June-December 2010, p. 45, no. 48 (illustrated in color; titled Cosmic Energy).
San Francisco, Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern, Indelible Fables, January-February 2012, p. 31, no. 5 (illustrated in color).



Further Details

We are grateful to Dr. Salomon Grimberg for his assistance cataloguing this work.
Artist:Remedios Varo (1908 - 1963)
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Mexico
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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