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Remedios Varo

A mi amigo Agustín Lazo

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November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Remedios Varo

1908 - 1963


A mi amigo Agustín Lazo

signed Remedios Varo (lower right); signed Remedios Varo and dedicated A Agustín Lazo afectuosamente (on the frame lower center)

gouache on paper, in artist's frame

13½ by 7¾ in.

34.3 by 19.7 cm.

Executed in 1945.

Agustín Lazo, Mexico (acquired as a gift from the artist)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Obra de Remedios Varo 1913 - 1963, 1971, no. 59
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Remedios Varo 1913 - 1963, 1983, no. 12
Madrid, Fundación Banco Exterior and Monterrey, Museo de Monterrey, Remedios Varo, 1988-89, no. 5, n.p., illustrated in color
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Remedios Varo 1908 - 1963, 1994, no. 24, p. 35, illustrated in color
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Nagoya, Denki Bunka Kaikan; Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, Remedios Varo, 1999, no. 1, p. 42, illustrated in color
Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts and Chicago, Mexican Replica Handbags s Center Museum, The Magic of Remedios Varo, 2000, no. 11, pp. 41 & 114, illustrated in color
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, De aviesa intención. Psicoanálisis e identidades en el arte mexicano, 2020
Buenos Aires, Fundación MALBA, Remedios Varo Constellations, 2020-21
Juan Manuel Bonet, "El retorno de Remedios Varo," Diario 16Guía de Madrid, November 1988
David Casado, "El regreso a España, de una gran surrealista," El Punto, Madrid, 4 November 1988, illustrated
Estrella de Diego, Remedios Varo, Madrid, 2007, p. 27, illustrated in color
Ricardo Ovalle and Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo: Catálogo Razonado Cuarta Edición, Mexico City, 2008, no. 63, p. 146, illustrated in color