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Property from a Distinguished Collection, North America

Remedios Varo

Ritos extraños

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May 14, 01:12 AM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Collection, North America

Remedios Varo

(1908 - 1963)


Ritos extraños 

oil on Masonite 

30 ⅝ by 19 ⅝ in.   77.8 by 48.3 cm.

Executed in 1959.

Gerardo Lizarraga, Mexico 

Xabier Lizarraga, Mexico 

Galería Arvil, Mexico City

Private Collection, Mexico (acquired by 1994)

Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City

Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner

Ricardo Ovalle and Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo: catálogo razonado primera edición, Mexico City, 1994, no. 257, pp. 69 and 174, illustrated in color, pp. 289 and 316

Lupina Lara Cantú, "Remedios Varo: su vida," Resumen, pintores y pintura mexicana, May 1996, no. 17, p. 8, illustrated in color 

Ricardo Ovalle and Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo: catálogo razonado segunda edición ampliada, Mexico City, 1998, no. 257, pp. 69 and 174, illustrated in color, pp. 289, XX and XXIII

Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo: catálogo razonado, Mexico City, 1999, no. 257, pp. XX and XXIII

Ricardo Ovalle and Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo: catálogo razonado tercera edición, Mexico City, 2002, no. 257, pp. 129 and 234, illustrated in color, pp. 354, 385 and 391

Ricardo Ovalle and Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo: catálogo razonado cuarta edición, Mexico City, 2008, no. 257, pp. 129 and 234, illustrated in color, pp. 354, 385 and 391

Exh. Cat., Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Remedios Varo Constelaciones, 2020, fig. 2, p. VII, illustrated in color

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Remedios Varo 1908-1963, 1994, no. 127, p. 68, illustrated in color and p. 105

Bogotá, Banco de la República and Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango and Mexico City, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Remedios Varo Pinturas, 1997, n.n., n.p., illustrated in color

Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Nagoya, Denki Bunka Kaikan and Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, Remedios Varo, 1999, no. 35, p. 87, 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, n.n., p. 80, illustrated in color, and p. 138