Remedios Varo (1908–1963) was a Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter renowned for her intricate, dreamlike compositions that intertwine mysticism, science, and the subconscious. Born in Anglès, Girona, Spain, she received formal art education at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. Fleeing the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War and later Nazi-occupied France, Varo settled in Mexico City in 1941, where she became a central figure in the surrealist movement alongside contemporaries like Leonora Carrington and Kati Horna .