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Winter (Invierno),
1947–49
Remedios Varo, 1908–1963; born Anglés, Spain; died Mexico City, Mexico; active Mexico City
2001-139
One of more than thirty advertising images Varo produced for the Bayer pharmaceutical company, Invierno depicts a human-machine hybrid that is propelled forward on wheels by an internal bellows. In these pieces, signed with her mother’s maiden name, Uranga, Varo combined her technical drawing skills with the imaginative surreal imagery and chance-based painting techniques that appear throughout her practice. Here she created branching forms that recall vegetation by applying drops of paint and blowing on the paper. Bayer’s advertising firm requested Varo make an image that represented the company’s vitamins as “oiling machines”; while this wheeled figure was inspired by this directive, similar figures appear in Varo’s work in other, noncommercial paintings.
More About This Object
Information
Title
Winter (Invierno)
Dates
1947–49
Maker
Medium
Gouache
Dimensions
39.7 x 28 cm (15 5/8 x 11 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of David L. Meginnity, Class of 1958
Object Number
2001-139
Place Made
South America, Venezuela
Signatures
Signed in graphite, lower right: Uranga
Reference Numbers
Ovalle and Gruen 2008 81A
Type
Materials
Hilda Puerto de Millet, Mexico. Casa Bayer, Mexico City. Felipe B. Canton, Mexico. Humberto Puerto, Mexico. Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (sold to Meginnity); David L. Meginnity, Class of 1958, Santa Monica, CA and New Smyrna Beach, FL, by 2000; bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2001.
Invierno
