REMEDIOS VARO | MICROCOSMOS (DETERMINISMO)

Auction Closed

June 30, 03:09 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate

REMEDIOS VARO

1908 - 1963

MICROCOSMOS (DETERMINISMO)

Signed R. VARO (lower right)

Tempera on Masonite

36½ by 35 in.

92.7 by 88.9 cm

Painted in 1959.

Alfred H. Frye, Loveland, Ohio (acquired from the artist)

Town of Montgomery, Ohio (acquired from the above and sold: Christie's, New York, November 19, 1987, lot 45)

Acquired at the above sale

Luis Cardoza y Aragón, México. Pintura activa, Mexico City, 1961, n.n., illustrated p. 107

Rosario Castellanos, "En la muerte de Remedios Varo" in Siempre! La Cultura en México, November 6, 1963, illustrated n.p.

Octavio Paz & Roger Callois, Remedios Varo, Mexico City, 1966, illustrated pl. 4

Janet Kaplan, Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varo, New York, 1988, n.n., illustrated in color pp. 141-42

Ricardo Ovalle & Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo: Catálogo Razonado, Mexico City, 2002, no. 235, illustrated in color p. 225