![]() Varo would have two surviving siblings: an older brother Rodrigo, and another brother Luis. Her mother named her newborn in honor of the patron saint of Anglès, Virgen de los Remedios (the "Virgin of Remedies"), after a recently deceased older sister. Varo's mother, Ignacia Uranga Bergareche, had been born to Basque parents in Argentina she was a devout Roman Catholic. ![]() Remedios Varo Uranga was born in 1908 in Anglès, a small town in the province of Girona (Catalonia), in northeastern Spain. In the last thirteen years of her life she found financial stability in Mexico, painting productively until her sudden death in 1963. Varo had a difficult life, struggling against poverty and fleeing from war in Spain and then France. María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga (known as Remedios Varo, 16 December 1908 – 8 October 1963) was a Spanish-born Mexican : 18 surrealist painter working in Spain, France, and Mexico. ![]()
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