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Remedios Varo
(December 16 1908 - October 08 1963)
Spanish painter, Remedios Varo is well-known for her painstaking and brilliantly executed paintings of occult subjects and themes. However, she also wrote semi-fictional, Surrealist “treatises” on science and mysticism. Perhaps her most unusual work is a document entitled De Homo Rodans, a pseudo-anthropological piece meant to accompany her only known sculpture – a figure fashioned from wired chicken, turkey and fish bones.
For information on other women working in Mexico, see:
Leonora Carrington, Lola Alvarez Bravo, María Izquierdo, Frida Kahlo, Renata Von Hanffstengel
For information on other women in Surrealism, see:
Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, Kay Sage, Dorothea Tanning
Photograph of Remedios Varo in her studio painting Farewell, 1958, courtesy of Walter Gruen
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