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Remedios Varo — Les Feuilles mortes (Les heures mortes, El hilo)
Remedios Varo

Les Feuilles mortes (Les heures mortes, El hilo)

1956

Varo's oil painting on board presents a mysterious, dreamlike composition exploring themes of decay, mortality, and transformation through symbolic imagery. The work exemplifies her surrealist style with meticulous detail and fantastical subject matter.

Medium
oil on board

🔨 Auction Lot

Modern Evening Auction

November 17, 2021

Estimate: $1,500,000$2,000,000

Lot 13

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Remedios Varo, Les Feuilles mortes (Les heures mortes, El hilo) , 1956

Varo's oil painting on board presents a mysterious, dreamlike composition exploring themes of decay, mortality, and transformation through symbolic imagery. The work exemplifies her surrealist style with meticulous detail and fantastical subject matter.

Medium
oil on board
Year
1956
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Surrealism, Dreamlike, Modernism, Symbolism, Oil Painting, 1950s, Mexican-Spanish Art

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