Artist: Karima Muyaes (Mexican, b.1960). Title: "Naufragio". Medium: Color etching with drypoint and aquatint a la poupee. Date: Composed 1983. Dimensions: Overall size: 19 13/16 x 14 7/8 in. (503 x 378 mm). Image size: 11 3/4 x 9 15/16 in. (298 x 252 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil. Print #5 of Edition of 5. Soft handling creases; otherwise fine condition. Upon request, a Letter of Authenticity (LOA) from the Artist accompanies this lot. Comment(s): The winner of the first prize in the print category at the Toronto School of Art in 1983, when the artist was 23. 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. [18624-0-300]