Remedios Varo (Anglès Catalonia, 1908 - Mexico City, 1963) Desire, 1935 Object box: wood, candle, oil, watercolour 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, reproduced in the catalogue under n° 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 reproduced on p. 169 - Teruel, Museo de Teruel, "El objeto surrealista en España", 27 September - 28 October 1990, Barcelona, 1991, reproduced 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 menaçant", 20 February - 25 May 1997, described in the catalogue under no. IV p. 542 and reproduced on 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, reproduced under no. 10 p. 35 - J. Kaplan, "Unexpected journeys. The Art and Life of Remedios Varo", 1988, described in the catalogue p.104 and reproduced p. 58 - R. Ovalle, W. Gruen, A. Blanco, T. del Conde, S. Grimberg, J. A. Kaplan, "Remedios Varo, Catalogue raisonné", Era Ediciones, 1994, described in the catalogue under no. 16 p. 75 and reproduced on p. 240 - E. de Diego, "Remedios Varo", MAPFRE Foundation, Madrid, 2007, reproduced in the catalogue p. 13 - M.J. González and R. Rius Gatell, "Remedios Varo, Caminos del conocimiento, la creación y el exilo", eutelequia Ensayo, reproduced in catalogue fig. 9, n.p. - 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 reproduced on p. 137. We would like to thank Dr. Salomon Grimberg, co-author of the catalogue raisonné, for his kind assistance in referencing this work.