Walter Gruen, Mexico (by descent from the artist)
Beatriz Varo, Valencia (by descent from the above in 1988)
Sotheby’s, Paris, December 7, 2016, lot 54
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Barcelona, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Surrealisme a Catalunya, May - June 1988, p. 139 (illustrated)
Museo de Teruel, Remedios Varo, Arte y Literatura, October 25 - November 24, 1991, no. 10, p. 83 (illustrated)
Museo de Teruel, Los parentesis de la mirada: un homenaje a Luis Buñuel, October 29 - November 28, 1993, no. 57, p. 134 (illustrated)
Madrid, Museo Nacionale Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Vienna, Kunsthalle; Verona, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo Forti; Santiago de Compostela, Auditorio de Galicia; El Surrealismo en España 1924-1939, October 18, 1994 - January 7, 1996, no. 198, p. 368 (illustrated, p. 264)
Mataró, Can Paluet, ADLAN i el circ frediani [jocs icaris], December 19, 1997 - March 1, 1998, p. 133 (illustrated)
Fundación Caja Madrid, Ismos: vanguardias españolas: 1915-1936, October 15 - December 6, 1998, no. 37, p. 116-117 (illustrated)
Madrid, Fundación Cultural Mapfre Vida, FUERA de ORDEN. mujeres de la Vanguardia Española, February 10 - April 18, 1999, p. 162 (illustrated, p. 163)
Madrid, Residencia de Estudiantes, Fundación ICO, Luis Buñuel: El ojo de la libertad, February - May 2000, pp. 209, 342 (illustrated, p. 209)
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, París y los Surrealistas, June 20 - September 18, 2005, p. 148 (illustrated)
New York, Di Donna, Surrealism in Mexico, April 26 - June 28, 2019, p. 130 (illustrated, pp. 59, 130)
Beatriz Varo, Remedios Varo: en el centro del microcosmos, Mexico, 1990, no. 21, p. 199 (illustrated; dated as 1930)
Ricardo Ovalle and Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo. Catálogo Razaonado, Calle del Trabajo, 2008, no. 30, p. 304 (illustrated, p. 135)
Spanish / Mexican • 1908 - 1963
Spanish-born Remedios Varo is widely recognized as a pioneer of Surrealism in Latin America. Varo formally trained at Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid and spent many of her formative years in Barcelona and Paris. While in Paris, Varo met Andre Breton and many other members of the Surrealist circle, including Max Ernst and Roberto Matta. With the onset of World War II and the Nazi occupation of France, Varo fled to Mexico along with other European artists and intellectuals including Kati Horna, Leonora Carrington and Gunther Gerzso. While Varo's work was undoubtedly influenced by Breton's surrealist writings, her mature works are often reminiscent of both Italian and Flemish Renaissance paintings in their allegorical nature and use of subtle tonalities.
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