LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on masonite

Measurements:

14.57 in. (37.00 cm.) (height) by 9.06 in. (23.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed lower right

Exhibited:

Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Palacio de Bellas Artes,. La obra de Remedios Varo , August 3, 1964, no. 78. Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno,. Obra de Remedios Varo: 1913/1963 , October-November, 1971, no. 53, illustrated in color

Literature:

Justino Fernandez,. Catalogos de las exposiciones de arte , Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Mexico, 1965, p. 104, illustrated. Roger Caillois, Octavio Paz, et al.,. Remedios Varo , Mexico City, 1966, no. 28, illustrated in color . Justino Fernandez,. Catalogos de las exposiciones de arte , Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Mexico, 1972, p. 120-123, discussed. Gonzalo Celorio, . El surrealismo y lo real-maravilloso americano , Mexico City, 1976, p. 35, discussed. Edouard Jaguer,. Remedios Varo , Paris, 1980, p. 16-18, illustrated in color. Janet A. Kaplan,. Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varo , New York, 1988, p. 192, illustrated in color . Lourdes Andrade,. Remedios Varo y la alquimia , Mexico City, 1990, p. 29, discussed. Beatriz Varo,. Remedios Varo: en el centro del microcosmos , Madrid, 1990, p. 183, illustrated in color . Mary Caws, et al.,. Surrealism & Women , Cambridge, 1991, p. 171, discussed. Ricardo Ovalle, Walter Gruen, et al.,. Remedios Varo: Catalogo Razonado, Cuartera Edición , Mexico City, 2008, no. 251, p. 231, illustrated in color. Alberto Ruy Sanchez, et al.,. Cinco Llaves del Mundo Secreto de Remedios Varo , Mexico City, 2008, p. 125, illustrated in color

Provenance:

The Collection of Guillermo Hurtado, Mexico City. The Collection of Henry Willard Lende, Jr., Austin, Texas