Sinopsis
The first major monograph for a worldwide audience on one 
of the most appealing, mysterious surrealist painters. 
The volume showcases all the painter’s most important works 
and Masayo Nonaka’s illuminating text offers a unique 
insight into the life and work of Remedios Varo. 
She is acclaimed as one of the most talented women 
surrealists of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Spain, Remedios Varo (1908-1963) received 
her first training in Madrid, before fleeing the Spanish civil war to 
join surrealist circles in Paris. At the outbreak of World War II, she 
was forced to take refuge in Mexico, where she remained until 
her untimely death in 1963. 
Known as one of the three brujas (witches) active in the Mexico 
City art milieu, Varo shared an interest in esotericism with fellow 
painter Leonora Carrington and a range of interests in science, 
philosophy, and the literature of German Romanticism with the 
photographer Kati Horna. 
For some ten years before her death, she devoted herself to 
creating an extraordinary dreamlike oeuvre, on the threshold 
between mysticism and the modern mind.