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Remedios Varo
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(Or scroll down for images and details. Lenin is a participant in the eBay (EPN) affiliate program) The total overall size is an impressively large 20 x 24 inches with the image size 16 x 20 inches on the finest grade artist canvas available. There is a white border around the image, so it can either be board/dry mounted or stretched with standard OR gallery canvas bars. Your canvas will be rolled in tissue paper and sent in a strong cardboard tube with both top and bottom tightly secured. Unstretched.
More: This and other Remedios Varo canvas prints are available @ ebay.com (direct link to Remedios Varo canvas prints) - not sure if those on offer are official or unofficial prints so please check with seller (Lenin is a participant in the eBay (EPN) affiliate program) Remedios Varo’s Hacia La Torre (Towards the Tower) is one of the defining works from the artist’s extraordinary visionary universe — a painting in which symbolism, mysticism and Surrealist imagination combine to create a scene of haunting narrative power. Rich in atmosphere and psychological tension, the work invites the viewer into a world where architecture, ritual and spiritual transformation become inseparable. The composition depicts a solemn procession of young female figures moving toward a towering Gothic structure, their identities partially absorbed into the strange rhythm and geometry of the scene. As with many of Varo’s works, the image feels suspended between dream and allegory, suggesting a hidden story that resists complete explanation. The tower itself functions as both destination and symbol — a place of discipline, confinement, initiation or awakening. Created during Varo’s mature period in Mexico, Hacia La Torre reflects her deep engagement with esoteric philosophy, medieval imagery and the psychological symbolism of Surrealism. Her paintings often depict journeys or rites of passage in which figures move through enclosed spaces toward some elusive form of knowledge or transformation. In this work, movement itself becomes ritualised, as though the procession forms part of an ancient ceremonial order. Varo’s technical precision gives the painting its extraordinary atmosphere. Every architectural detail, flowing garment and carefully balanced shape contributes to the sense of a fully realised symbolic world. Her background in technical drawing allowed her to render impossible spaces with remarkable conviction, making even her most fantastical visions feel strangely believable. Yet beneath the controlled composition lies a powerful emotional undercurrent. The work has often been interpreted as reflecting themes of conformity, education, spiritual imprisonment and the search for individual identity. Like many of Varo’s paintings, it draws upon personal memory while simultaneously opening itself to broader philosophical interpretation. Born in Spain in 1908 and later exiled to Mexico following the turmoil of war in Europe, Varo created an artistic language unlike any other within twentieth-century Surrealism. Influenced by alchemy, science, mysticism, literature and psychology, she developed paintings that feel less like illustrations and more like fragments from an undiscovered mythology. Hacia La Torre remains one of Varo’s most admired works because it captures the essence of her artistic vision: mysterious, intellectually rich and emotionally resonant. The painting does not simply present an image, but an initiation into a world governed by hidden forces, symbolic architecture and the enduring human search for transcendence. This giclee on canvas print beautifully preserves the intricate textures, luminous tones and dreamlike atmosphere of Varo’s original composition, allowing collectors and admirers to experience one of the artist’s most iconic visionary works in striking detail. No Longer Available More: This and other Remedios Varo canvas prints are available @ ebay.com (direct link to Remedios Varo canvas prints) - not sure if those on offer are official or unofficial prints so please check with seller Ultimate Reading |
