Drypoint Mixed Media

Santi Moix Seeing Don Quixote and Sancho ("the famous pair"), ca. 2008 Drypoint, etching and abrasion with hand coloring with watercolor, along with graphite annotations Hand signed and numbered 1 of 5 (1/5) by the artist on the front Frame Included: elegantly floated and framed in a museum quality hand made wood frame, finished with authentic gold leaf The present work is one of a suite of hand colored prints that were included in the exhibition "Santi Moix: Don Quixote" at PACE prints from September 11 to October 4, 2008. Excerpt from the PACE Gallery Press materials: It is clear that Moix, a true Catalonian, has a rightful claim to the lineage that spawned the extraordinary draughtmanship of his Spanish predecessors- Goya and Picasso. “Part of the pleasure of this project on Quixote by Santi Moix is that it boldly closes the gap between writing and art, between the markmaking of the pen, the stylo, the etching tool, between the fiction of two absolutely distinct means of expression, and proposes instead a true imaginative domain in which unity is everything” – Adrian Dannati, 2008 Measurements: Frame: 22 x 27 x 1.5 inches Print: 19.5 x 25 inches Exhibition History: "Santi Moix: Don Quixote" at PACE prints from September 11 to October 4, 2008. Published by Pace Prints, in collaboration with the Institut Ramon LLull Provenance: PACE Editions, New York, NY This work is elegantly floated and framed in a hand made museum quality wood frame, finished with genuine gold leaf, under UV plexiglass. About Santi Moix: Santi Moix was born in Barcelona in 1960. Recent solo exhibitions include “Brooklyn Studio,” M77 Gallery, Milon, Italy; “Santi Moix on Huckleberry Finn: Watercolors and Wall Dryawings,” Paul Kasmin...