Remedios Varo(1908-1963)
- Writer
Spanish painter Remedios Varo was a major figure in the Surrealist
school. A native of Catalonia, she fled Spain in 1937 when the fascist
forces of Gen. Francisco Franco
overthrew the elected Spanish government. She moved to Paris with her
husband, French poet Benjamin Peret, and
in 1940 moved again to Mexico, where she remained. She died in Mexico
City in 1963.