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Remedios Varo in a Mask by Leonora Carrington

Remedios Varo in a Mask by Leonora Carrington
Remedios Varo in a Mask by Leonora Carrington
Remedios Varo in a Mask by Leonora Carrington
ArtistMexican, born Hungary, 1912–2000
DepictedMexican, born Spain, 1908–1963
CultureMexican
Titles
  • Remedios Varo in a Mask by Leonora Carrington
Date1957
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/2 × 9 7/8 in. (26.7 × 25.1 cm)
 Sheet: 10 3/4 × 10 1/16 in. (27.3 × 25.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Macey Hodges Reasoner in honor of Lynn Randolph
Object number2014.88
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionKati Horna left Europe at the beginning of World War II. Along with her husband, the Spanish artist José Horna, she purchased a home in Mexico City, creating a safe haven for exiled artists. Soon, the Surrealist painters Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington fled Europe to Horna’s Mexican refuge. Safe in Horna’s home, the three women artists merged sculpture, performance, and photography, creating this mysterious and fantastic work of art.
ProvenanceArtist; Kati Polgovsky (granddaughter), 2000; Kati Horna Archives, Mexico City, 2000; Patricia Conde Gallery, Mexico City, 2013; MFAH, 2014.
Exhibition History"Surreal Friends: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna," Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom, 19 June–12 September 2010.

Published References Fortd, Susan. et. al., "In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and The United States " USA: Prestel, 2012, pp. 256. Garcia Krinsky. Katie Horna, Recuento de una obra. México, CENIDIAP, 1995 Kusunoki, Sharon-Michi, et al. "Surreal Friends," Lund Humphries Publishers, 2010, pp. 144. p. 223, Horna, Amparo, Jeu de Paume, 2014. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in graphite on verso lower left: Kati Horna
Stamped on verso center: KATI HORNA / [faint illegible]

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