Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale
The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
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June 30, 03:09 AM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
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The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate
REMEDIOS VARO
1908 - 1963
ARMONÍA (AUTORRETRATO SUGERENTE)
Signed R. VARO (lower right)
Oil on Masonite
29½ by 36½ in.
75 by 92.7 cm
Painted in 1956.
Marisole Wörner Baz, Mexico City
Galería Arvil, Mexico City
Jack Mondlak, New York (acquired from the above and sold: Christie's, New York, May 18, 1988, lot 26)
Acquired at the above sale
Raquel Tibol, "Primera investigación de Remedios Varo" in Novedades, México de la Cultura, Mexico City, July 28, 1957, illustrated n.p.
José Luis Arreguín, "El mundo mítico de Remedios Varo" in Perfumes y Modas, Mexico City, December 1958, illustrated in color n.p.
Raquel Tibol, "Remedios Varo" in Política, Mexico City, October 15, 1963, illustrated n.p.
Octavio Paz & Roger Caillois, Remedios Varo, Mexico City, 1966, n.n., illustrated in color p. 11
Bambi, "Remedios Varo" in Revista de Revistas, Mexico City, April 28, 1968, illustrated in color n.p.
Tere, "Remedios Varo: un homenaje con su propia creación pictórica" in Novedades, Mexico City, October 25, 1971, illustrated in color n.p.
Patricia Montelongo, "Un mundo de magia y revelaciones" in El Heraldo, Mexico City, November 12, 1971, illustrated in color n.p.
Gloria Orenstein, "Women of Surrealism" in The Feminist Art Journal, New York, Spring 1973, illustrated n.p.
Gonzalo Celorio, El surrealismo y lo real-maravilloso americano, Mexico City, 1976, n.n., illustrated p. 89
Edouard Jaguer, Remedios Varo, Paris, 1980, n.n., illustrated in color pp. 37-38
"Remedios Varo 1913/1963" in Tiempo Libre, Mexico City, October 7, 1983, illustrated in color on the cover
José Luis Alcubilla, "El surrealismo ha existido, existe y existirá. Entrevista con Walter Gruen" in Uno Más Uno, Sábado, Mexico City, October 8, 1983, illustrated n.p.
Fernando Martín Martín, "Remedios Varo, pintora de lo maravilloso" in Lápiz, Madrid, February 1985, illustrated in color n.p.
Whitney Chadwick, "The Muse as Artist. Women in the Surrealist Movement" in Art in America, New York, July 1985, illustrated in color n.p.
Whitney Chadwick, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, Boston, 1985, illustrated in color pl. 177
Peter Engel, "The Art of Remedios Varo. A Struggle Between the Scientific and the Sacred" in Technology Review, Cambridge, October 1986, illustrated in color n.p.
Janet Kaplan, "Remedios Varo. An Art Essay" in Feminist Studies, College Park, Spring 1987, illustrated n.p.
Janet A. Kaplan, Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varo, New York, 1988, n.n., illustrated in color p. 190
Francisco Calvo Seraller, "Biografía de una mujer surrealista" in El País, Madrid, November 4, 1988, illustrated n.p.
Remedios Varo (exhibition catalogue), Madrid, Fundación Banco Exterior, 1988, no. 84, illustrated in color n.p.
Beatriz Varo, Remedios Varo: en el centro del microcosmos, Madrid, 1990, n.n., illustrated p. 168
Masayo Nonaka, "Remedios Varo" in Studio Voice, Tokyo, September 1991, illustrated in color n.p.
Mariana del Valle, "Retrospectiva de Remedios Varo en Washington, D.C." in Geomundo, Mexico City, February 2000, illustrated in color p. 81
Ricardo Ovalle & Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo: Catálogo Razonado, Mexico City, 2002, no. 161, illustrated in color p. 195