Lot #2558: KARIMA MUYAES - Mujer con Mascara - Color linoleum cut

 

Artist: Karima Muyaes (Mexican, b.1960).
Title: "Mujer con Mascara".
Medium: Color linoleum cut.
Date: Composed 1992.
Dimensions: Overall size: 13 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. (349 x 251 mm). Image size: 11 11/16 x 7 7/8 in. (297 x 200 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $225
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $350/400
Lot Note(s): Signed and dated in pencil, lower right; numbered in pencil, lower left. Edition of 10. Grey laid paper. Wide (full?) margins. Fine impression. Very good condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: James Orr's provisional catalogue number PR56. Provenance: Private collection, New York City (Manhattan); Upon request, a Letter of Authenticity (LOA) from the Artist accompanies this lot.
Comment(s): A listed artist, Karima Muyaes is currently one of the most innovative and talented international painters/printmakers. A major monograph on her work authored by Avelina Lesper, the foremost contemporary Mexican art critic, will be published early in 2022. Muyaes’s work has sold at Sotheby's (New York City), Swann Auction Galleries (New York City), Martin Gordon Auctions (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 34 currently active Mexican artists and 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. [22063-0-225-NA]