Remedios Varo (Angles Catalogne, 1908 - Mexico, 1963)
Le désir, 1935
Object-box: wood, candle, oil, watercolor and mirror
Annotated on the back
23 x 28,5 x 9,5 cm

Provenance:
- Private collection, Paris
- Former Charles Ratton collection, Paris
- Galerie 1900-2000, Paris
- Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn collection, Paris

Exhibitions:
- Paris, Galerie Charles Ratton, "Exposition surréaliste d'objets", 22 - 29 May 1936
- Paris, Galerie 1900-2000, "Continent abstrait continent surréaliste, Almanach demi stock n°2", 18 February 1986, illustrated in the catalogue under no. 110 p. 63
- Geneva, Musée Rath d'art et d'histoire, "Focus on the Minotaure. The animal-headed review", 17 October 1987 - 31 January 1988
- Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, "Focus on the Minotaure. The animal-headed review", described in the catalogue under no. 241 p. 272 and illustrated p. 169
- Teruel, Museo de Teruel, "El objeto surrealista en Espana", 27 September - 28 October 1990, Barcelona, 1991, illustrated in the catalogue under no. 70 p. 127
- Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, "Les années 30 en Europe, Le temps menacant", 20 February - 25 May 1997, described in the catalogue under no. IV p. 542 and illustrated p. 238
- Paris, Musée national d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, "La Révolution Surréaliste", 27 February 2002 - 24 June 2002, described in the catalogue p. 442

Bibliography:
- P. Mabille, "La conscience lumineuse", Minotaure, Paris, 1937, illustrated under no. 10 p. 35
- J. Kaplan, "Unexpected journeys. The Art and Life of Remedios Varo", 1988, described in the catalogue p. 104 and illustrated p. 58
- R. Ovalle, W. Gruen, A. Blanco, T. del Conde, S. Grimberg, J. A. Kaplan, "Remedios Varo, Catalogue raisonne", Era Ediciones, 1994, described in the catalogue under no.16 p. 75 and illustrated p. 240
- E. de Diego, "Remedios Varo", Fondation MAPFRE, Madrid, 2007, illustrated in the catalogue p. 13
- M.J. Gonzalez and R. Rius Gatell, "Remedios Varo, Caminos del conocimiento, la creacion y el exilo", eutelequia Ensayo, illustrated in the catalogue fig. 9, unpaginated
- T. Arcq, P. Engel, J. Moreno, J. Kaplan, F. Bogzaran, S. Lisci, W. Gruen, "Cinco llaves del mundo secreto de Remedios Varo", 2015, described in the catalogue p. 211 and illustrated p. 137

Our thanks to Dr. Salomon Grimberg, co-author of the catalogue raisonne, for his kind help in referencing this work.