Remedios Varo (1908-1963), La tejedora roja

Remedios Varo (1908-1963)
La tejedora roja
oil on paper mounted on panel
17 ½ x 11 ½ in. (44.5 x 29.2 cm.)
Executed in 1956.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION
Post Lot Text
1 This photography is in Beatriz Varo de Cano’s archive, a cropped version of which is reproduced on page 28 of Janet A. Kaplan’s Remedios Varo: Unexpected Journeys (New York: Abbeville Press, 2000).
2 Janet A. Kaplan’s Remedios Varo: Unexpected Journeys (New York: Abbeville Press, 2000), 215.
3 Esperanto is an artificial language that Polish occultist L.L. Zamenhoff created in 1887 to serve as an international second language.
4 An exquisite corpse is a technique/game/drawing method developed by Surrealists as a means to access the unconscious and to produce bizarre, fantastic imagery.
5 For a chronology of Varo’s life see Walter Guen and Tere Arcq, “Cronología,” in Cinco llaves del mundo secreto de Remedios Varo (Mexico City: Artes de Mexico, 2008), 207-215.
6 Tere Arcq, “La llave esoterica: en busca de lo milagroso,” in Cinco llaves del mundo secreto de Remedios Varo (Mexico City: Artes de Mexico, 2008).
7 Ibid., 33.
8 Ibid., 39.