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REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)

Lot 103
28.02.2023 16:00UTC +00:00
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ID 908093
Lot 103 | REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)
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REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)

Retrato del Doctor Ignacio Chávez

signed 'R. VARO' (lower right)

oil on Masonite

37 1/4 x 24 3/8 in. (94.6 x 61.9 cm.)

Painted in 1957





Provenance

Dr Ignacio Chávez, Mexico, by whom acquired directly from the artist.

Private collection, Mexico, by descent from the above.

Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco.

Acquired from the above by the present owners in 2010.



Literature

A. De Neuvillate, 'Remedios Varo, pintora de lo imposible', in Novedades, México en la cultura, Mexico City, 1964.

J. Fernández, 'Catálogos de las exposiciones de arte', in Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Mexico City, 1965, p. 104.

O. Paz, et al., Remedios Varo, Mexico City, 1966, no. 23, p. 175 (illustrated p. 23).

Bambi, 'Remedios Varo', in Revista de Revistas, Mexico City, 1968 (illustrated).

P. Montelongo, 'Un mundo de magia y revelaciones', in El Heraldo, Mexico City, 1971 (illustrated).

J. Fernández, 'Catálogos de las exposiciones de arte', in Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Mexico City, 1972, pp. 122 & 104.

E. Jaguer, Remedios Varo, Mexico City, 1980, p. 71 (illustrated).

J. Kaplan, Remedios Varo: Unexpected Journeys, New York, 1988, no. 122, pp. 136 & 172 (illustrated p. 139).

R. Santos Torroella, 'El tiempo nunca perdido de Remedios Varo', in Remedios Varo, Madrid, 1988, p. 57 (illustrated).

J. Kaplan, et al., Art Vivant n. 32, Tokyo, 1989 (illustrated).

B. Espejo, Historia de la pintura mexicana, vol. III, Mexico, 1989, p. 231 (illustrated).

L. Andrade, Remedios Varo y la alquimia, Mexico, 1990, p. 52.

B. Morris, 'El surrealismo extragaláctico de la pintora Remedios Varo', in Turia, Revista Cultural, nos. 21-22, Teruel, Spain, 1992.

R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo, Catalogue Raisonné, Mexico City, 1994, no. 192, p. 275 (illustrated p. 149).

R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo, Catalogue Raisonné Second Revised Edition, Mexico City, 1998, no. 192, p. 275 (illustrated p. 149).

R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo, Catalogue Raisonné Third Edition, Mexico City, 2002, no. 192, p. 340 (illustrated p. 209).

R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo, Catalogue Raisonné Fourth Edition, Mexico City, 2008, no. 192, p. 340 (illustrated p. 209).

M. Nonaka, Remedios Varo: The Mexican Years, Mexico City, 2020, p. 56 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, La obra de Remedios Varo, August 1964, no. 75.

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Obra de Remedios Varo, October 1971, no. 22.

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Surrealismo y Arte Fantástico, November 1971, no. 139.

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, La mujer como creadora y tema del arte, June 1975, no. 25.

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Remedios Varo 1908-1963, February - June 1994, p. 102 (illustrated p. 58).

Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Remedios Varo, June 1999, no. 24; this exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, 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; this exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Mexican Fine Arts Center, June - August 2000, p. 138 (illustrated p. 77).

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Five Keys to the Secret World of Remedios Varo, May - August 2008 (illustrated on the cover and p. 118)

Chichester, England, Pallent House Gallery, Surreal Friends: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, and Kati Horna, June - September 2010, p. 111 (illustrated).

San Francisco, Gallery Wendi Norris, Exultation: Sex, Death, and Madness in Eight Surrealist Masterworks, February - April 2011.

San Francisco, Frey Norris Gallery, Remedios Varo: Indelible Fables, January - February 2012 (illustrated).

Copenhagen, The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, The Moon - From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, September 2018 - January 2019, no. 205, p. 71.



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