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Remedios Varo We are based in South London near Croydon and if preferred this item can be picked up by appointment. Just e-mail here. Reproduction giclee on canvas The total overall size is an impressively large 20 x 24 inches with the image size 16 x 20 inches on the finest grade artist canvas available. There is a white border around the image, so it can either be board/dry mounted or stretched with standard OR gallery canvas bars. Your canvas will be rolled in tissue paper and sent in a strong cardboard tube with both top and bottom tightly secured. Unstretched.
Remedios Varo’s The Clockmaker reflects the artist’s enduring fascination with time, machinery and the hidden systems governing both the physical and spiritual worlds. Like much of Varo’s mature work, the painting exists within a realm where science, mysticism and dream imagery merge seamlessly, creating a vision that feels simultaneously medieval, futuristic and profoundly psychological. In Varo’s universe, clocks are never merely instruments for measuring hours and minutes. Time itself becomes fluid, symbolic and metaphysical — a force intertwined with consciousness, memory and transformation. The figure of the clockmaker therefore assumes an almost alchemical role: not simply a technician repairing mechanisms, but a guardian of hidden cosmic order. The atmosphere of the work is deeply characteristic of Varo’s mature style. Enclosed interiors, delicate machinery and elongated architectural spaces create an environment suspended outside ordinary reality. Her worlds often resemble secret laboratories or monastic workshops in which unseen laws are studied through ritual, invention and introspection. Varo possessed an extraordinary ability to render impossible visions with convincing precision. Every object appears meticulously designed, every mechanism carefully constructed. Her early training in technical drawing is evident throughout the composition, lending credibility to scenes that operate according to dream logic rather than conventional physics. At a deeper symbolic level, The Clockmaker may be understood as an exploration of humanity’s desire to control the passage of time and impose order upon existence. Throughout history, clocks have represented reason, discipline and measurement, yet Varo transforms these ideas into something more mysterious and philosophical. Her clockmaker becomes less an engineer than a seeker attempting to understand the invisible rhythms underlying reality itself. The painting also reflects Varo’s broader engagement with esoteric traditions, alchemy and Surrealist thought. Rather than depicting external reality directly, she constructs symbolic narratives that function almost like visual parables. Meaning emerges gradually through atmosphere, gesture and association rather than through fixed explanation. Born in Spain in 1908 and later exiled to Mexico after the upheavals of war in Europe, Varo developed her mature artistic vision in Mexico City, where she became associated with a circle of Surrealist and intellectual figures exploring mysticism, psychology and alternative systems of knowledge. Her paintings from this period remain among the most distinctive works produced within twentieth-century Surrealism. The Clockmaker endures because it transforms an ordinary profession into a meditation on existence itself. In Varo’s hands, the act of measuring time becomes inseparable from the search for spiritual understanding, and machinery becomes a poetic metaphor for the hidden mechanics of the universe. No Longer Available More: This and other Remedios Varo canvas prints are available @ ebay.com (direct link to Remedios Varo canvas prints) - not sure if those on offer are official or unofficial prints so please check with seller Ultimate Reading |
