Remedios Varo

Remedios Varo
Black and white photo of a middle-aged Remedios Varo sitting at her easel, holding a paintbrush.
Varo at her easel, 1959
Born
María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga

(1908-12-16)16 December 1908
Died8 October 1963(1963-10-08) (aged 54)
Mexico City, Mexico
Alma materReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
MovementSurrealism

María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga (known as Remedios Varo, 16 December 1908 – 8 October 1963) was a Spanish Mexican[1] surrealist painter who created the majority of her most iconic and celebrated works in Mexico.[2]

  1. ^ Tibol, Raquel (2014). Buñuel y Remedios Varo: Dos momentos del surrealismo en México (in Spanish). Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México. ISBN 9786073125017.
  2. ^ Kaplan 1980