Remedios Varo (1908-1963)

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Description

Remedios Varo
El hombre de la guadaña (Muerte en el mercado)
signed Uranga lower right; also inscribed with title and text on the reverse
9 3/4 by 7 3/4 in.
(24.8 by 19.7 cm)
Executed in 1947.

gouache on paper

Provenance

Casa Bayer, Mexico
Felipe G. Cantón, Mexico
Virgilio Morales, Mexico
Sale: Christie's, New York, Latin American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, November 21, 1988, lot 101, illustrated in color

Literature

Publicidad, 1949, illustrated
Ricardo Ovalle and Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo: Catalogue Raisonné, Mexico City, 1998, Ediciones Era, p. 92, illustrated in color, p. 249