b. Angelés, Spain, 1908; d. Mexico City, 1963).
Varo is known for her unique style of surrealist paintings. Varo was born In Spain in 1908. Her father was an engineer and taught Varo mechanical drawing. She had a strict Catholic education before becoming one of the first women to enroll in the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid in 1924. She traveled to France in 1930 and returned to Spain in 1932, settling in Barcelona. She became involved with political activists during the Spanish Civil War and moved with her husband, the Surrealist poet Benjamin Peret to France after the Fascist victory in 1936. In Paris she became involved in the Surrealist movement and was included in the 1938 Surrealist exhibition in Paris as well as the 1940 Surrealist show in Mexico City. Varo developed a close friendship with Leonora Carrington, a fellow woman Surrealist who shared her interest in fantasy, dreams alchemy and mysticism. She left Paris for Mexico City with the invasion of the German Ar
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