Lot 54
  • 54

Remedios Varo

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
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Description

  • Remedios Varo
  • Ojos sobre la mesa
  • gouache sur papier
  • 12,6 x 20,2 cm ; 5 x 8 in.

Provenance

Walter Gruen (par descendance de l'artiste)
Don au propriétaire actuel en 1988

Exhibited

Barcelone, Centre d’Art Santa Mónica, Surrealisme a Catalunya 1924–1936, 1988, reproduit dans le catalogue p. 139
Teruel, Museo de Teruel, Remedios Varo, Arte y literatura, 1991, no. 10, reproduit dans le catalogue p. 83
Teruel, Museo de Teruel, Los paréntesis de la mirada: Un homenaje a Luis Buñuel, 1993, no. 57, reproduit dans le catalogue p. 134
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (exposition itinérante passant également par Düsseldorf, Vienne, Vérone et St Jacques de Compostelle), El Surrealismo en España. 1924-1939, 1994-95, no. 198, reproduit dans le catalogue p. 264
Mataró, Can Palauet, Adlan i el Circ Frediani, 1997-98, reproduit dans le catalogue p. 133
Madrid, Fundación Caja Madrid, Sala de las Alhajas, Ismos. Vanguardias españolas: 1915-1936, 1998, no. 37, reproduit dans le catalogue p. 116
Madrid, Fundación Cultural Mapfre Vida, Fuera de orden, mujeres de la Vanguardia Española, 1999, reproduit dans le catalogue p. 162
Madrid, Residencia de estudiantes & Saragosse, Palacio de Sástago, Luis Buñuel, El ojo de la libertad, 2000, reproduit dans le catalogue p. 209
Bilbao, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, París y los Surrealistas, 2005, reproduit dans le catalogue p. 148 

Literature

Ricardo Ovalle, Walter Gruen, et. al., Remedios Varo, catalogue raisonné, Mexico, 2008, no. 30, reproduit p. 135
Beatriz Varo, Remedios Varo: en el centro del microcosmos, Mexico, 1990, no. 21, reproduit p. 199

Condition

Executed on wove paper, not laid down, affixed to the mount along the edges at intermittent points. The left edge is slightly deckled. There is some very faint abrasion along the top edge and to the upper right corner, with a few minor horizontal creases. There is no evidence of retouching under UV light. This work is in very good original condition.
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Catalogue Note

gouache on paper. Executed in 1935.