Lot #2609: KARIMA MUYAES - Niño Interior - Color reduction linocut

     

Artist: Karima Muyaes (Mexican, b.1960).
Title: "Niño Interior".
Medium: Color reduction linocut.
Date: Composed 2011.
Dimensions: Overall size: 21 1/8 x 15 7/8 in. (537 x 403 mm). Image size: 15 5/8 x 11 5/8 in. (397 x 295 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $400
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $600/800
Lot Note(s): Signed, dated, numbered, and titled, lower margin. Edition of 20. Light cream watermarked wove paper. The full sheet; deckle edges four sides. Very fine impression with heavy ink application. Fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: James Orr's provisional catalogue number PR208. Provenance: Private collection, York, England. 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 2021. 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. [27987-0-400-NA]