Artist: Karima Muyaes (Mexican, b.1960). Title: "Eva (Eve)". Medium: Original color stencil monoprint. Date: Composed 1985. Printed 1985. Dimensions: Overall size: 15 1/2 x 12 in. (394 x 305 mm). Image size: 13 9/16 x 10 1/2 in. (344 x 267 mm). Lot Note(s): Hand-signed and dated in silver metallic ink, lower right; editioned lower left. Print #1 of edition of 1. Cream-colored handmade Mexican amate (bark) paper. Full margins (deckle edges). Fine impression. Very good condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: James Orr's provisional catalogue number M187. Provenance: Private collection, Cuervavaca, Mexico. 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. [25162-3-800] |