Lot #1467: KARIMA MUYAES - Ventanas - Color etching with aquatint

 

Artist: Karima Muyaes (Mexican, b.1960).
Title: "Ventanas [etching with aquatint]".
Medium: Color etching with aquatint.
Date: Composed 2002.
Dimensions: Overall size: 28 x 21 1/2 in. (711 x 546 mm). Image size: 19 1/2 x 13 9/16 in. (495 x 344 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $750
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $1,000/1,200
Lot Note(s): Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil. Edition of 35. Wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression. Fine condition; two zinc plates utilized. Literature/catalogue raisonne: James Orr's provisional catalogue number PR78. Provenance: Private collection, Santa Barbara, California. This print was included in the one woman exhibition “Karima Muyaes: Retrospectiva, 1985-2007,” at the Museo de Arte Regional (Azcapotzalco), Mexico City, March-May, 2007. A Letter of Authenticity (LOA) from the Artist accompanies this lot.
Comment(s): A widely listed artist, Karima Muyaes is currently one of the most innovative and talented international painters/printmakers working today. A major monograph on her work authored by Avelina Lesper, the foremost contemporary Mexican art critic, was published late in 2023 (available from Stanford Auctioneers, eBay, etc.). Titled "Karima Muyaes: El Color del Espi´ritu/Color of the Spirit” this 11 x 9 in. (28 x 23 cm) first edition first printing monograph/catalogue raisonne was published in a limited edition of 500 copies. Hardcover in case bound stamped boards with a four color pictorial dust jacket, this long-awaited work is the definitive volume on Muyaes’s art. The substantial volume includes nearly 700 images (including hundreds in four color) as well as descriptions of Muyaes’s work and is the most complete account of her artistic career to date. In its 396 pages it showcases her figurative and expressionistic work as it has unfolded over the past five decades. Her work has sold at Sotheby's (New York City), Swann Auction Galleries (New York City), Martin Gordon Auctions (Phoenix), Stanford Auctioneers (Phoenix), Louis C. Morton (Mexico City), and Casa de Subastas Odalys (Madrid/Caracas), among others. In April of 2013 and again in 2018 she was chosen by the prestigious Mexican newspaper "Milenio" as one of the top currently active Mexican artists and was featured in a series of newspaper articles and TV appearances. Muyaes has an extensive worldwide exhibition history which includes a show that travelled throughout Sweden for two years, 2010-2012. Image copyright © Karima Muyaes. [16699-0-750-NA]