Remedios Varo (1908-1963)

The Argentine financier Eduardo Costantini, a great collector of Latin American art bought the works for a total of €13.44 M during a sale in New York in June. Omi Obini by Wifredo Lam and Armonía by Remedios Varo will go to Buenos Aires in the private museum of the collector.

The second Surrealist chapter of this library highlights women who loved freedom, from Leonora Carrington to Remedios Varo.

“Surrealism Beyond Borders” at the Tate Modern in London maps the inherently transnational nature of the movement from Cairo to Cuba.

With more than twenty artists and ninety works from around forty public and private collections, this exhibition explores the Surrealists’ taste for esotericism, alchemy and the occult.

After the Second World War, surrealism continued its development, especially in North America. More worried and contemplative than their male counterparts, women artists meditated on the metamorphoses of life and travel in space and time.

The Surrealist galaxy, with all its successive dubbings and excommunications, gradually formed a large constellation of painters, photographers, poets and film directors. Jehan Mayoux and Gérard Legrand were part of the shifting coterie. The two hundred...

British painter, writer, female Surrealist, Mexican artist and eco-feminist, these are just some of the terms used to characterize Leonora Carrington, but her art and life resist any strict definition.