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Yucatecas en el Parque - Yucatecan Women in the Park by Francisco Zuñiga - 25757
Yucatecas en el Parque is a stone lithograph executed in 6 colors. It was printed by Atelier Mourlot in Paris, France. The publisher was Brewster Editions, New York, New York. It was printed on handmade Arches Rives & Japan paper. There were 150 copies in the edition, and this is #32/150.
Francisco Zuñiga was born in Costa Rica at the end of the year 1912. As an early teenager, he assisted his father at his wood sculpture workshop where carving religious figures predominated. He began using oil paints at age 14, using his brother and sister as models. Two years later, he carved his first stone sculpture and it won Second Prize in the National Fine Arts Exhibition. He continued winning prizes in that competition for successive years.