Monoprint on Somerset paper. 121.3x87.8 cm (47¾x34½"); framed: 132x98 cm (52x38½"). Signed by Chagoya at lower right. Enrique Chagoya is a Mexican-born painter and printmaker and a professor of Art at Stanford University. Chagoya has worked in serveral mediums but focuses on printmaking, his work offering a satirical commentary on contemporary culture and politics. His controversial artwork “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals”, which portrays Jesus, and possibly other religious figures, in a context of ambiguous sexual content, was destroyed by a woman wielding a crowbar on October 6, 2010 in an exhibit in Loveland, Colorado. The incident made Chagoya a cause célèbre in the art world and he remains a champion of free speech. Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply.
Monoprint on Somerset paper. 121.3x87.8 cm (47¾x34½"); framed: 132x98 cm (52x38½"). Signed by Chagoya at lower right. Enrique Chagoya is a Mexican-born painter and printmaker and a professor of Art at Stanford University. Chagoya has worked in serveral mediums but focuses on printmaking, his work offering a satirical commentary on contemporary culture and politics. His controversial artwork “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals”, which portrays Jesus, and possibly other religious figures, in a context of ambiguous sexual content, was destroyed by a woman wielding a crowbar on October 6, 2010 in an exhibit in Loveland, Colorado. The incident made Chagoya a cause célèbre in the art world and he remains a champion of free speech. Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply.
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