REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)

Lot 203
19.05.2026 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1574400
Lot 203 | REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000
REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)
La abeja adolorida
ink and gold leaf on glass with leather backing
8 x 5 7/8 x 7/8 in. (20.3 x 14.9 x 2.2 cm.)
Executed in 1957




Provenance

Raúl Kamffer, Mexico City.
Leonor Álvarez, Mexico City.
Ricardo Ovalle, Mexico City (circa 1990).
By descent from the above to the present owner (1994).



Literature

J. Berdeja, "Varo en el MAM: más de 200 mil visitantes en cuatro meses" in El Universal, Mexico City, 27 June 1994 (illustrated in color).
R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo: Catálogo razonado, Mexico City, 1994, p. 145, no. 188 (illustrated in color).
R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo: Catálogo razonado, Mexico City, 1998, p. 145, no. 188 (illustrated in color).
R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo: Catálogo razonado, Mexico City, 2002, p. 205, no. 188 (illustrated in color).
R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo: Catálogo razonado, Mexico City, 2008, p. 145, no. 188 (illustrated in color).



Exhibited

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Remedios Varo (1908-1963), February-June 1994, no. 81.
Chichester, Pallant House Gallery and Norwich, Sainsbury Centre, Surreal Friends: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, and Kati Horna, June-December 2010, p. 108, no. 123 (illustrated in color).



Further Details

We are grateful to Dr. Salomon Grimberg for his assistance cataloguing this work.
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