Remedios Varo Embroidering Earth's Mantle (16x20)

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Embroidering Earth's Mantle 16 by 20 inches 40 by 50 centimeters. Spanish title: Tejiendo el Manto Estelar, 961. Remedios Varo Uranga ( December 16 , 1908 - October 8 , 1963 ) was a surrealist painter . She was born in Anglés , Spain in 1908 and died from a heart-attack in Mexico City in 1963 . During the Spanish Civil War she fled to Paris w she was largely influenced by the surrealist movement. She was forced into exile from Paris during the Nazi occupation of France and moved to Mexico City at the end of 1941. She initially considered Mexico a temporary haven, but would remain in Latin America for the rest of her life. In Mexico she met native artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera . However, her strongest ties would be to other exiles and expatriates, and especially her extraordinary friendship with the English painter Leonora Carrington . Her last major relationship would be with Walter Gruen, an Austrian who had endured concentration camps before escaping Europe . Gruen believed fiercely in Varo, and gave her the support that allowed her to fully concentrate on her painting. After 1949 Varo developed into her mature and remarkable style, which remains beautifully enigmatic and instantly recognizable. She often worked in oil on masonite panels she prepared herself. Although her colors have the blended resonance of read more
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