Remedios Varo

A mi amigo Agustín Lazo

Auction Closed

November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Remedios Varo

1908 - 1963


A mi amigo Agustín Lazo

signed Remedios Varo (lower right); signed Remedios Varo and dedicated A Agustín Lazo afectuosamente (on the frame lower center)

gouache on paper, in artist's frame

13½ by 7¾ in.

34.3 by 19.7 cm.

Executed in 1945.

Agustín Lazo, Mexico (acquired as a gift from the artist)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Juan Manuel Bonet, "El retorno de Remedios Varo," Diario 16Guía de Madrid, November 1988
David Casado, "El regreso a España, de una gran surrealista," El Punto, Madrid, 4 November 1988, illustrated
Estrella de Diego, Remedios Varo, Madrid, 2007, p. 27, illustrated in color
Ricardo Ovalle and Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo: Catálogo Razonado Cuarta Edición, Mexico City, 2008, no. 63, p. 146, illustrated in color
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Obra de Remedios Varo 1913 - 1963, 1971, no. 59
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Remedios Varo 1913 - 1963, 1983, no. 12
Madrid, Fundación Banco Exterior and Monterrey, Museo de Monterrey, Remedios Varo, 1988-89, no. 5, n.p., illustrated in color
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Remedios Varo 1908 - 1963, 1994, no. 24, p. 35, illustrated in color
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Nagoya, Denki Bunka Kaikan; Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, Remedios Varo, 1999, no. 1, p. 42, illustrated in color
Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts and Chicago, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, The Magic of Remedios Varo, 2000, no. 11, pp. 41 & 114, illustrated in color
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, De aviesa intención. Psicoanálisis e identidades en el arte mexicano, 2020
Buenos Aires, Fundación MALBA, Remedios Varo Constellations, 2020-21