Remedios is from the Spanish *Nuestra Señora de los Remedios* ("Our Lady of Remedies"). **Remedios Varo (1908-1963)** was the **Spanish-Mexican Surrealist painter** — friend of Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, and the Mexico City exile community of Surrealists during WWII. **Her exquisite small canvases — depicting alchemists, scientists, embroideresses, and travelers in fantastical machines — are now considered masterpieces of Surrealism.** Forced to flee Spain during the Civil War, then Vichy France during the Nazi occupation.
Subject of the major 2023 Art Institute of Chicago retrospective.
Remedios reduces to four — the number of Spanish-Mexican Surrealist.