During this time she devoted the rest of her life to painting. By 1953 Varo was in a relationship with Austrian political refugee Walter Gruen, who passionately supported her artwork. In the outbreak of the Second World War, Varo fled Nazi-occupied France for Mexico, where she connected with other exiled artists such as Wolfgang Paalen, Gordon Onslow Ford, and Leonora Carrington, who became Varo’s closest friend. Although Varo was involved with Surrealism in Paris, her works were only exhibited with the group occasionally. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, she fled for Paris with Surrealist poet Benjamin Péret. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, Varo moved to Barcelona in the mid-1930s and joined the Surrealist avant-garde art group Logicophobista.
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