Lot #2497: EKO (H.S. DE LA GARZA BATORSKI) - Marat y Charlotte - Etching with aquatint

   

Artist: EKO (H.S. de la Garza Batorski) (Mexican, b.1958).
Title: "Marat y Charlotte".
Medium: Etching with aquatint.
Date: Composed 2012.
Dimensions: Overall size: 14 13/16 x 14 1/2 in. (376 x 368 mm). Image size: 5 5/8 x 5 9/16 in. (143 x 141 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $250
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $300/400
Lot Note(s): Signed, titled, and numbered in pen, lower margin. Edition of 20. Cream wove paper. Full margins. Very fine impression. Excellent condition.
Comment(s): As the Nobel laureate poet Octavio Paz has stated, "EKO's work is much more than tearing and biting; those monsters are not dreams - they are us." Noam Chomsky, the celebrated linguist and philosopher, has defined his art as "suitably ominous." Avelina Lesper, the noted art critic, has remarked, “In EKO, eroticism is form, a language.” He studied under Vlady (Vladimir Victorovich Kibalchich [Rusakov], Russian/Mexican, 1920-2005), spending endless hours studying Durer and Rembrandt. EKO is a descendant of the sadistic Countess Batori, who sought eternal life in the blood of young virgins at her castle in Csejta in the 17th Century. [27007--250-NA]