Lot #437: KARIMA MUYAES - Navajo - Color linocut

       

Artist: Karima Muyaes (Mexican, b.1960).
Title: "Navajo".
Medium: Color linocut.
Date: Composed 2008.
Dimensions: Overall size: 18 x 12 in. (457 x 305 mm). Image size: 12 x 8 in. (305 x 203 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed and dated in pencil. Edition of 15. Black wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression. Fine condition. Two color plates utilized. Literature/catalogue raisonne: James Orr's provisional catalogue number PR142. Provenance: Private collection, Rockford, Illinois. 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. [23478-0-225]