LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on masonite

Measurements:

48.43 in. (123.00 cm.) (height) by 39.37 in. (100.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed lower right

Exhibited:

Mexico City, Galería Juan Martin, Óleos recientes de Remedios Varo, June 1962. Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Palacio de Bellas Artes, La obra de Remedios Varo, August 1964. Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Remedios Varo: 1908-1963, February 25-June 25, 1994, no. 134, p. 74, illustrated in color. Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, Remedios Varo, October 21-November 28, 1999, p. 97, illustrated in color. Washington, National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Magic of Remedios Varo, February 10, 2000-May 29, 2000. Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Historia de mujeres artistas en México del siglo XX,January 2008-February 2009, p. 50, illustrated in color

Literature:

Raúl Flores Guerrero, "La pintura de Remedios Varo", La Obra de Remedios Varo, Mexico, INBA, 1964, illustrated in color. Octavio Paz and Roger Caillois, Remedios Varo, Mexico City, 1966, p. 6, illustrated in color. Juliana González, "Trasmundo de Remedios Varo", Remedios Varo, Mexico, 1966. Gonzalo Celorio, El surrealismo y lo real-maravilloso americano, Mexico, 1976, pp.29-31, discussed and illustrated. Artes de México, Universidad Nacional de México, et.al, 50 años de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, pp. 38-9, illustrated in color. Edouard Jaguer, Remedios Varo, Mexico, 1980, p. 32, illustrated in color. Janet A. Kaplan, Remedios Varo: Unexpected Journeys, The Art and Life of Remedios Varo, New York, 1988, no. 11, p. 19, illustrated in color. Georgiana Colvile, Beyond and Beneath the Mantle: On Thomas Pynchon's, The Crying of Lot, Amsterdam, 1988, p. 115 and p. 118, illustrated. Fundación Banco Exterior, Remedios Varo, Madrid, 1988, no. 87, p. 8, illustrated in color . Peter Engel, "The Traveler: Mexican Artist's Remedios Varo Quest for Order", Connoisseur Magazine, February 1988, p. 96, illustrated in color. Luis-Martín Lozano, "El trabajo creativo de Remedios Varo: entre El Bosco y André Breton", Remedios Varo, The Tokyo Shimbun, Japan, 1999, p. 97, illustrated in color. Walter Gruen, Ricardo Ovalle, et. al., Remedios Varo, Catálago Razonado, Tercera Edición, Mexico, 2002, no. 303, p. 253, illustrated in color. Germaine Gómez Haro, et. al. Historia de mujeres. Artistas en México del siglo XX. México, 2008, p. 50, illustrated in color. Stefan van Raay, Joanna Moorhead and Teresa Arcq, Surreal Friends, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna, Mexico City, 2010, p. 113, illustrated in color

Provenance:

Galería Juan Martín, Mexico City. Private Collection, Mexico City. Sale: Christie's, New York, Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, May 1, 1990, lot 23, illustrated in color; also illustrated in color on the cover .