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12 мая 2025 г.

Случайно наткнулся на живой репортаж с вечернего аукциона "Кристи" и досмотрел его до продажи полотен почитаемых мной сюрреалисток Ремедиос Варо и Доротеи Таннинг. Варо, сказали, побила свои рекорды. Несколько кадров продажи этой работы я записал с экрана.

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Christie's

Live Auction 23456
20th Century Evening Sale

REMEDIOS VARO (1908-1963)
Revelación (also titled El relojero)
incised 'R. VARO' (lower right)
oil on Masonite
28 ½ x 33 ½ in. (72.4 x 85.1 cm.)
Painted in 1955.

Estimate: USD 3,500,000 – USD 5,500,000
Price realized: USD 6,221,000
Closed: 12 May 2025

Provenance:

Carlos Riveroll, Mexico City
Isaac Verbitzky, Mexico City
Hanni Bruder Kafka, Mexico City
Drexel Galería, San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
Private collection, New York
By descent from the above to the present owner

Exhibited:

- Mexico City, Galerías Diana, Remedios Varo en Galerías Diana, April-May 1956, no. 8.
- Mexico City, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Obra de Remedios Varo, August 1964, no. 23 (illustrated).
- Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Remedios Varo: 1913-1963, August-November 1983, no. 18.
- New York, The New York Academy of Sciences, May-July 1986; Washington, D.C., National Academy of Sciences, September-November 1986, Science in Surrealism: The Art of Remedios Varo, p. 6 (illustrated in color).
- Madrid, Fundación Banco Exterior, November 1988-Janaury 1989; Mexico, Museo de Monterrey, March 1989, Remedios Varo, no. 21 (illustrated).
- Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Remedios Varo: 1908-1963, February-June 1994, p. 100, no. 55 (illustrated).
- Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, June-June 1999; Nagoya, Denki Bunka Kaikan, July-August 1999; Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, October-November 1999, Remedios Varo, pp. 46 and 47, no. 5 (illustrated in color).
- Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, February-May 2000; Chicago, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, June-August 2000, The Magic of Remedios Varo, p. 97 (illustrated in color).
- Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, April-September 2022; Germany, Potsdam, Museum Barberini, October 2022-January 2023, Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity, p. 226, no. 92 (illustrated in color).

Further Details:

We are grateful to Dr. Salomon Grimberg for his assistance cataloguing this work.

Please note this painting has been requested on loan by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark for the upcoming exhibition, Remedios Varo (1908-1963): A Retrospective, scheduled to open in September 2026 and travelling to Moderna Museet, Stockholm in 2027.

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