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Remedios Varo

Los caminos tortuosos

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November 19, 02:32 AM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

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Property from a Prestigious North American Collection

Remedios Varo

(1908 - 1963)


Los caminos tortuosos

signed R. Varo (lower right) 

gouache, brush and ink and charcoal on card

18 ½ by 11 in.

47 by 27.9 cm.

Executed in 1958.

Jaime García Terrés, Mexico (acquired as a gift directly from the artist)

Private Collection, Mexico (acquired from the above)

Sotheby’s, New York, 19 November 2003, lot 9 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Mexico (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Palacio de Bellas Artes, La obra de Remedios Varo, 1964, no. 34

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Arte fantástico y surrealista de México, 1971, no. 138

Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Nagoya, Denki Bunka Kaikan and Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, Remedios Varo, 1999, no. 19, p. 66, illustrated in color 

Raquel Tibol, “Primera investigación de Remedios Varo,” Novedades, México en la Cultura, 28 July 1957, n.p., illustrated

Max Aub, “Notas para lamentar la muerte de Remedios Varo,” Revista de la Universidad de México, December 1963, p. 22, illustrated

Ernestina de Champourcin, “La pintura alucinante y perfecta de Remedios Varo,” Gaceta Social de México, September 1964, n.p., illustrated

Roger Callois, Juliana González and Octavio Paz, Remedios Varo, Mexico City, 1966, no. 71, n.p., illustrated

Edouard Jaguer, Remedios Varo, Paris and Mexico City, 1980, p. 58, illustrated

Octavio Paz, “Apariciones y desapariciones de Remedios Varo,” Proceso, 22 August 1983, n.p., a detail illustrated

Estella Lauter, Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women, Bloomington, 1984, pp. 91 and 234

Janet A. Kaplan, Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varo, New York, 1988, p. 156, illustrated

Edouard Jaguer, Janet A. Kaplan and Remedios Varo, Art Vivant, Tokyo, 1989, no. 32, n.p., illustrated 

Ricardo Ovalle and Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo: catálogo razonado primera edición, Mexico City, 1994, no. 167, p. 138, illustrated in color; p. 270

Ricardo Ovalle and Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo: catálogo razonado segunda edición, Mexico City, 1998, no. 167, p. 138, illustrated in color; p. 270

Ricardo Ovalle and Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo: catálogo razonado tercera edición, Mexico City, 2002, no. 167, p. 198, illustrated in color; p. 335

Eva Santos-Phillips, “Questioning and Transgressing in the Representations of Silvina Ocampo and Remedios Varo,” Hispanic Journal, vol. 25, no. 1/2, Spring and Fall 2004, fig. 1, p. 159, illustrated

Magnolia Rivera, Trampantojos. El círculo en la obra de Remedios Varo, Mexico City and Buenos Aires, 2005, pp. 109, 122 and 124

Ricardo Ovalle and Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo: catálogo razonado cuarta edición, Mexico City, 2008, no. 167, p. 198, illustrated in color; p. 335