ART

Varo Work Sets World Record: A painting by Remedios Varo sold for $825,000 Tuesday, setting a new world auction record for a Latin American artist, Christie’s auction house announced. The 1961 oil on Masonite painting, titled “Hacia La Torre (Toward the Tower),” depicts eight fair-haired women with empty faces in somber costumes departing from a Neo-Gothic castle on bicycles. The buyer of the work was not identified.