Remedios Varo

Remedios Varo

Remedios Varo Uranga (December 16 1908 - October 8, 1963) was a Spanish-Mexican, para-surrealist painter. 

She was born María de los Remedios Varo Uranga in Anglès, Girona, Spain in 1908. 

During the Spanish Civil War she fled to Paris where she was greatly influenced by the surrealist movement. 

She met her second husband (the first was Gerardo Lizarraga, a painter), 

the French surrealist poet Benjamin Péret in Barcelona.