Lot #949: KARIMA MUYAES - Encanto Nocturno - White line color etching with aquatint

 

Artist: Karima Muyaes (Mexican, b.1960).
Title: "Encanto Nocturno".
Medium: White line color etching with aquatint.
Date: Composed 2007.
Dimensions: Image size: 11 3/16 x 15 3/4 in. (284 x 400 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil. Edition of 30. Pale cream wove paper. Full margins. Fine impression. Fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: James Orr's provisional catalogue number PR157. Provenance: Private collection, New Canaan, Connecticut. 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. [18288-0-400]