Why Latin American Surrealism is surging in a down art market
Works by women in particular offer collectors a sure thing at a better price
In 1956 the painter Diego Rivera stated that three of the world’s most important female artists lived in Mexico. (His wife, Frida Kahlo, had just died.) He was talking about European émigrée Surrealists: Remedios Varo of Spain, Leonora Carrington of England and Alice Rahon of France.
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Brazil’s president is losing clout abroad and unpopular at home
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva put Brazil on the map, but he hasn’t adapted to a changed world