Lot #1488: KARIMA MUYAES - Watermelon Dance - Color monoprnt

 

Artist: Karima Muyaes (Mexican, b.1960).
Title: "Watermelon Dance".
Medium: Color monoprnt.
Date: Composed 1985.
Dimensions: Overall size: 20 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (521 x 343 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $400
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $600/800
Lot Note(s): Signed lower right. Printed on Mexican amate bark paper. Fine condition. Provenance: Private collector, Quito, Ecuador. 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. [29981-0-400-NA]