"...A trio of women Surrealist artists sparked some of the early action with Remedios Varo's fantasy figure of a bicycle bodied woman, Los caminos tortuosos (1958) in gouache, brush and ink and charcoal on card that brought $1.7m ($2m with fees). And Leonora Carrington's statuesque La Grande Dame (The Cat Woman, 1951) in oil on wood, standing at 200cm high, sold to the Argentine collector Eduardo Costantini, and founder of the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires, for $9.8m ($11.3m with fees) against an estimate of $5m to $7m. It made the auction record for a sculpture by Carrington. Lastly, Leonor Fini's pantheon of goddesses, Les Stylites (The Stylists, 1976) rose to $600,000 ($720,000 with fees)..."
Nov 19, 2024
