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...The auction house has priced it according to levels on the private market, he says, noting too the growing institutional and collector demand for female Surrealists, including Carrington, her friend Remedios...
...In Mexico, for example, Surrealism was feminised by a group around Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Kati Horna, their paintings suffused by allusions to Mexico’s ancient matriarchal societies, sorceresses...
...The market keeps growing for female Surrealists, such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, who both lived in Mexico....
...Among the offerings are wispy works by the in-demand Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, while Wolfgang Paalen and Gordon Onslow Ford — rarer at auction — also feature....
...We have Kol, experimenting at the intersection of fine dining, traditional Mexican and British ingredients, and there’s my own favourite, Santo Remedio, that serves a great evening and has an innate hospitality...
...She cites ground-breaking Czech animator Jan Švankmajer as an influence, as well as female surrealist artists including Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, Remedios Varo, Hannah Höch, and Eileen Agar....
...The Surrealist tide nudged them aside in favour of women such as Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and the extraordinary María Izquierdo. Two Izquierdo paintings make an asteroidal impact....
...Among these are works by Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning, Remedios Varo and a small, precious Max Ernst (“I get the most requests for loans of these surrealist works,” she says)....
...Edson and Natalie Diaz-Fuentes briefly opened the first Santo Remedio — also a Mexican restaurant — in Shoreditch last year....
...The resulting remedio is a nutrient-rich superdrink with added flavour and a medicinal boost. Cultivation and consumption of yerba mate was a Guaraní tradition the Jesuits retained and encouraged....
...With George’s urging, Glover set up a company called Remedios to commercialise her invention. She learnt how academic science intersects with the real world....
...Alvaro de Remedios, chairman of Arcano, the Spanish financial group, said: “Ironically, we have the strongest pipeline of IPOs we’ve had for the past four or five years....
...One of these new-found friends, Remedios Varo, had acquired a similarly impressive technical skill by studying Old Masters in her native Spain. War forced her to move to Mexico in 1941....
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