REMEDIOS VARO | MICROCOSMOS (DETERMINISMO)

Auction Closed

June 30, 03:09 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important Estate

REMEDIOS VARO

1908 - 1963

MICROCOSMOS (DETERMINISMO)

Signed R. VARO (lower right)

Tempera on Masonite

36½ by 35 in.

92.7 by 88.9 cm

Painted in 1959.

Alfred H. Frye, Loveland, Ohio (acquired from the artist)

Town of Montgomery, Ohio (acquired from the above and sold: Christie's, New York, November 19, 1987, lot 45)

Acquired at the above sale

Luis Cardoza y Aragón, México. Pintura activa, Mexico City, 1961, n.n., illustrated p. 107

Rosario Castellanos, "En la muerte de Remedios Varo" in Siempre! La Cultura en México, November 6, 1963, illustrated n.p.

Octavio Paz & Roger Callois, Remedios Varo, Mexico City, 1966, illustrated pl. 4

Janet Kaplan, Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varo, New York, 1988, n.n., illustrated in color pp. 141-42

Ricardo Ovalle & Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo: Catálogo Razonado, Mexico City, 2002, no. 235, illustrated in color p. 225

Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Segunda Bienal Interamericana de México, 1960, n.n.

Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Collects Paintings, 1973, n.n.