REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)

Lot 4
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$ 3 420 000
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ID 842717
Lot 4 | REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)
Valeur estimée
$ 2 500 000 – 3 500 000
REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)

Creación con rayos astrales

signed 'R. Varo' (lower right)

oil and tempera on Masonite

26 1/2 x 16 3/4 in. (67.3 x 43 cm.)

Painted in 1955





Provenance

Private collection, Mexico City.

Galería Antonio Souza, Mexico City.

Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 27 November 1984, lot 37.

Private collection, Florida.

Private collection, Mexico City.

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2008.



Literature

R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo, Catalogue Raisonné, Mexico City, Ediciones Era, 1994, p. 258, n. 120 (illustrated in color, p. 112).

R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo, Catalogue Raisonné Second Revised Edition, Mexico City, Ediciones Era, 1998, p. 258, n. 120 (illustrated in color, p. 112).

R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo, Catalogue Raisonné Third Edition, Mexico City, Ediciones Era, 2002, p. 322, n. 120 (illustrated in color, p. 172).

R. Ovalle, et al., Remedios Varo, Catalogue Raisonné Fourth Edition, Mexico City, Ediciones Era, 2008, p. 322, n. 120 (illustrated in color, p. 172).

E. A. Hernández, "Abren su universo con Cinco Llaves," El economista, no. 1362, 2008 (illustrated on cover and p. 8 in color).

Y. Israde, "Revelan hoy inéditos de Varo en el MAM," Reforma, 2008 (illustrated in color).

V. Cirlot, Remedios Varo. Constelaciones, Buenos Aires, Malba, 2020 (illustrated in color, p. XVIII).



Exhibited

Mexico City, Galería Antonio Souza, June 1958.

Lima, Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo, Pintura Mexicana Contemporánea de la Galería Antonio Souza, April 1961.

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Five Keys to the Secret World of Remedios Varo, 2008 (illustrated in color, p. 51).

Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Humlebæk, Denmark, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Fantastic Women: Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo, 13 February - 8 November 2020 (illustrated in color, p. 283).



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This painting is sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by Walter Gruen, dated 24 January 2008.
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