Indigenous Theater Group, and worked as a costume designer with the choreographer Mercedes Quintana. As a painter she exhibited in countries such as Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Germany, and France. She broke her exile in 1949 to collaborate with Dalí on the Don Juan Tenorio directed by Luis Escobar Kirkpatrick at the National Theater of Spain. From then on, she traveled frequently to Europe – especially Paris and Madrid – and in the 1980s she settled permanently in the Spanish capital. She died in Madrid at age 93. Her epitaph contains the following caption: "I do not know if I will have stopped loving for having died, or I will have died for having stopped loving." In her memoirs, she expressed her "passionate militancy in lesbianism in the context of a stale and intolerant Spain." The life and work of Victorina Durán has been the subject of study. Eva María Moreno Lago presented the doctoral thesis Victorina Durán escritora y artista del teatro de vanguardia at the University of Seville in 2018. References External links "Eva Moreno Lago: 'Victorina Durán: figurinista y surrealista en el teatro español del '27'", Casariche Cursos de Verano Conferencias, at YouTube 1899 births 1993 deaths 20th-century Spanish painters Artists from Madrid Exiles of the Spanish Civil War in Argentina Lesbian painters Spanish LGBT painters Spanish lesbian artists Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando alumni Spanish costume designers Spanish scenic designers Spanish surrealist artists Women scenic designers Women surrealist artists LGBT history in Spain 20th-century Spanish LGBT people