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Remedios Varo

1908 - 1963

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María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga (known as Remedios Varo, 16 December 1908 – 8 October 1963) was a Spanish and Mexican surrealist painter. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Remedios Varo is the 550th most popular painter (up from 601st in 2019), the 493rd most popular biography from Spain (up from 529th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Spanish Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Remedios Varo ranks 550 out of 2,023. Before her are Clara Peeters, Andreas Achenbach, Émile Friant, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov. After her are Paloma Picasso, Sebastiano Ricci, Martiros Saryan, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Anton von Werner, and Willem Kalf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Remedios Varo ranks 77. Before her are Percy Williams, Yousuf Karsh, Don Ameche, André Martinet, Alain Cuny, and Lionel Stander. After her are Max Bill, Henri, Count of Paris, Van Heflin, Rómulo Betancourt, Jim Brown, and Viktor Abakumov. Among people deceased in 1963, Remedios Varo ranks 46. Before her are Michael Rockefeller, Sabu Dastagir, Pedro Armendáriz, Sylvanus Olympio, Mohammad Ali Bogra, and Sivananda Saraswati. After her are Rikidōzan, Alois Hudal, Hubert Pierlot, Alexander Marinesko, Eduard Spranger, and Karl von Terzaghi.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Remedios Varo ranks 493 out of 3,355. Before her are Quique Setién (1958), Javier Marías (1951), Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Navarre (1363), Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia (1953), Al-Mundhir of Córdoba (842), and Erwig (642). After her are Federico Mayor Zaragoza (1934), José de Espronceda (1808), Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1939), Aurelius of Asturias (740), Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo (1963), and Juan de Herrera (1530).

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Among PAINTERS In Spain

Among painters born in Spain, Remedios Varo ranks 13. Before her are Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617), Juan Gris (1887), Joaquín Sorolla (1863), Antoni Tàpies (1923), Enrique Simonet (1866), and Francisco Pacheco (1564). After her are Marià Fortuny (1838), Santiago Rusiñol (1861), Josefa de Óbidos (1630), Alonso Sánchez Coello (1531), Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560), and Francisco Herrera the Elder (1576).

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