LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

33.74 in. (85.70 cm.) (height) by 23.74 in. (60.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'R.Varo' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Mexico City, Galería Juan Martín, 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, no. 65. Mexico City, Galería Aristos, Surrealismo y arte fantástico en México, July 1967. Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Obra de Remedios Varo 1908-1963, October 1971. Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Remedios Varo, 10-25 June 1999, no. 58. This exhibition also travelled to Tokyo, Denki Bunka Kaikan, 27 July–15 August 1999 and Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, 21 October–28 November 1999. Washington D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Magic of Remedios Varo , 10 February–29 May 2000. This exhibition also travelled to Chicago, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, 16 June–20 August 2000. Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Women Surrealists in Mexico, 19 July – 7 September 2003, no. 54. This exhibition also travelled to Osaka, Suntory Museum, 13 September–19 October 2003, Nagoya, Nagoya City Art Museum, 1 November–21 December 2003, and Kochi, The Museum of Art, 4 January–22 February 2004. Sacramento, California, The Crocker Art Museum, Arte Mexicano: Legacy of the Masters, 12 October 2014–1 February 2015

Literature:

J. Fernández, Catálogos de las exposiciones de arte, suplementos de los Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas , Mexico City, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1965, p. 104. O. Paz and R. Caillois, Remedios Varo , first edition, Mexico, D.F., Ediciones Era, 1966, p. 54 (illustrated in color). Exhibition catalogue, Obra de Remedios Varo 1908-1963 , Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, 1971, n.p. (illustrated). I.Rodríguez Prampolini, “Las expresiones plásticas contemporáneas de México,” Cuarenta siglos de plástica mexicana: Arte moderno y contemporáneo , Herrero, Mexico, 1971, p. 215 (illustrated in color). K. Petersen and J. Wilson, Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century , New York University Press, New York, 1976, p. 132 (illustrated). E. Jaguer, Remedios Varo , Paris, Filipacchi, 1980, p. 56 (illustrated in color). R. Ovalle and W. Gruen, Remedios Varo: catálogo razonado, first edition, Mexico, D.F., Ediciones Era, 1994, p. 221, n. 345 (illustrated in color). Exhibition catalogue, Remedios Varo, Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art and Denki Bunka Kaikan, and Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, 1999, p. 117, no. 58 (illustrated in color). J. Kaplan, Remedios Varo: Unexpected Journeys, first paperback edition, New York, Abbeville Press, 2000, p. 240 (illustrated). Exhibition catalogue, The Magic of Remedios Varo, Washington D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts and Chicago, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, 2000, p. 70 (illustrated in color). L. Andrade, Remedios Varo: las metamorfosis, second edition, Mexico, D.F., Círculo de Arte, 2001, p. 61 (illustrated in color). R. Ovalle and W. Gruen, Remedios Varo: catálogo razonado, third edition, Mexico, D.F., Ediciones Era, 2002, p. 281, n. 345 (illustrated in color). Exhibition catalogue, Women Surrealists in Mexico, Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Osaka, Suntory Museum, Nagoya, Nagoya City Art Museum and Kochi, The Museum of Art, 2003-2004, p. 113 (illustrated in color). R. Ovalle and W. Gruen, Remedios Varo: catálogo razonado, fourth edition, Mexico, D.F., Ediciones Era, 2008, p. 280, n. 345 (illustrated in color)

Provenance:

Phillippe Chancellor collection, Mexico City. Acquired from the above by the present owner