The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important EstateREMEDIOS VARO1908 - 1963MICROCOSMOS (DETERMINISMO) Signed R. VARO (lower right)Tempera on Masonite36½ by 35 in.92.7 by 88.9 cmPainted in 1959.ProvenanceAlfred 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 LiteratureLuis 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. 4Janet Kaplan, Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varo New York, 1988, n.n., illustrated in color pp. 141-42Ricardo Ovalle & Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo Catálogo Razonado, Mexico City, 2002, no. 235, illustrated in color p. 225 ExhibitedMexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Segunda Bienal Interamericana de México, 1960, n.n. Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Collects Paintings, 1973, n.n. Catalogue Note
The Vanguard Spirit: Modern and Surrealist Masterworks from an Important EstateREMEDIOS VARO1908 - 1963MICROCOSMOS (DETERMINISMO) Signed R. VARO (lower right)Tempera on Masonite36½ by 35 in.92.7 by 88.9 cmPainted in 1959.ProvenanceAlfred 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 LiteratureLuis 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. 4Janet Kaplan, Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varo New York, 1988, n.n., illustrated in color pp. 141-42Ricardo Ovalle & Walter Gruen, Remedios Varo Catálogo Razonado, Mexico City, 2002, no. 235, illustrated in color p. 225 ExhibitedMexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Segunda Bienal Interamericana de México, 1960, n.n. Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Collects Paintings, 1973, n.n. Catalogue Note
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