**Originally Listed At $1000**

Lucia Maya (Mexican, b. 1953), "Recuerdos de Sal", etching with aquatint, drawn on 2 copper plates by the artist, printed on Arches Cover White 250 gm - 100% cotton paper, 1989. Numbered 4 of 75 in pencil on the lower left. Signed & dated 1989 in pencil on the lower right. Printed by Artegrafias Limitadas, a renowned print workshop in Mexico City that operated from 1982 to 2006. A breathtaking rendering of a female draped in silky, chocolate brown fabric that seems to resolve in organic kelp-like forms suspended below her chest - perhaps Maya's version of an Earth or Sea Mother. She tips her head to her right, and her beautiful face is marked by ruby red lips, an aquiline nose, and a half-closed hazel eye. Wavy brunette locks cascade over her shoulders. The palette is rich - chocolate browns, azure blues, and slate greys. Technique for plate 1: aquatint (blue ink + red ink - faces). Technique for plate 2: soft ground etching, hard ground etching, aquatint (sepia ink). Size: 30.5" L x 23.5" W (77.5 cm x 59.7 cm); 45.375" L x 31.875" W (115.3 cm x 81 cm) framed

Born on Santa Catalina Island in California, Maya moved with her family to San Pedro Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico before the age of 5. She studied art at the Universiyy of Guadalajara as well as the Academia de Bellas Artes San Fernando in Madrid, Spain. She is a painter, sculptor, and lithographer and her work has been exhibited at the Degollado Theatre in Mexico; Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon, and the Puerto Rican Museum of Contemporary Art. Most recently, Maya's work was on display at the Museum of Latin American Art in the "Ink: Stories on Skin" exhibit (August 25th to February 3rd, 2019).

"In Mexico there are several very interesting exponents of this return to an obstinate severity and discipline, and among them I am glad to find Lucia Maya, in whose drawings one encounters the backdrop of a carefully and delicately cultivated technique. Her themes: the accessories of fantastic corsetry, the broken dolls, the torn fruit, beaten and bleeding, like those of Frida Kahlo, who inspired her, executed in this medium of colored pencils so dear to Dürer, are an exalted tribute to Kahlo. Maya’s works, so original and inimitable, contain great poetry, the first condition of authentic art. " (text from Salvador Elizondo)

"Lucia’s paintings are full of symbolism and inner meanings. Her confident brush paints a world w solitude, tension and impassioned freedom are woven together through images of secluded figures, pounding hearts and twisting flowering vines. Her art expresses the spirituality of endurance rather than focusing on objects of a physical nature." (Susanna Kirchberg from El antiQuario)

This print has been authenticated by Alex Ehrenberg Azcarate, the founder and director of Artegrafias Limitadas, the print shop that worked with Lucia Maya to create this limited edition print. Lucia Maya drew the copper plate by hand, and the piece was etched and hand-printed by Artegrafias Limitadas. According to Mr. Azcarate, the red line on the dress was hand drawn by the artist with pencil on the finished print AND using a dark sepia ink gives the impression that it is black ink where there is hard ground etching – the sepia tone comes out where there is aquatint.

The retail value of this print ranges from $2000 to $3000.

Provenance: private Southern California, USA collection, acquired in the 1970s to mid-1980s

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Professionally framed. Print has not been examined outside of the frame, but appears to be excellent. Numbered 4 of 75 in pencil on the lower left. Signed by the artist and dated to 1989 in pencil on the lower right.