Lubaina Himid Limited Edition Framed Print
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Lubaina Himid
Lemon, 2025
Acrylic paint and acrylic silkscreen print on Somerset tub paper
Edition of 50, numbered and dated
Signed in pencil by Lubaina Himid
Bespoke solid oak frame
Dimensions:
32.8 x 27.8cm (print dimensions)
36 cm x 41cm x 2.5cm (frame dimensions)
An edition of 50 prints commissioned to mark Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska’s exhibition Another Chance Encounter at Kettle’s Yard this summer.
Each print in the edition is unique, with Himid first painting directly onto each sheet of paper in vibrant colours and patterns typical of her work. These bold backdrops have then been overlaid with a handprinted silkscreen image of a lemon, made in collaboration with master printer, Magda Stawarska.
Lubaina Himid has often depicted lemons in her paintings. For Himid, lemons can represent many things: a natural shock of colour, a beautiful fruit with a bitter taste, something to trade or bargain with. The lemon is also significant for Kettle’s Yard. Jim Ede, who created Kettle’s Yard with his wife Helen, placed a single fresh lemon every week or so on a grey pewter plate in the Kettle’s Yard house: a tradition which continues to this day. For Ede, the lemon was a means of drawing attention to the pops of yellow found in the paintings displayed nearby, and encourage visitors to think about how art is in conversation with the everyday world.
The prints are supplied in a bespoke limed-finish oak frame, approved by the artist. Handmade in Cambridgeshire by a local framer, the frame is solid oak with white stain and low reflection glass. The prints are mounted to a conservation standard.
About the artist
Lubaina Himid, CBE, (born Zanzibar 1954) lives and works in Preston, England. A two-person exhibition with Magda Stawarska is currently on view at Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean through August 24. In 2026, she will represent the United Kingdom at the 61st Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition of new work in the British Pavilion. Her major solo exhibition at Kettle’s Yard: Lubaina Himid with Magda Stawarska: ‘Another Chance Encounter’ opens on 12 July and runs to 2 November 2025.
Himid received the Turner Prize in 2017 and was the subject of a major survey at Tate Modern in 2021–22. Other recent solo and two-person exhibitions include MUDAM Luxembourg (through August 24, 2025); FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2024–25); Greene Naftali, New York (2024); The Contemporary Austin (2024); Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE (2023–24); Glyndebourne Opera Festival, East Sussex, UK (2023); Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (2022); Tate Britain, London (2019); Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands (2019); CAPC Bordeaux, France (2019); New Museum, New York (2019); Spike Island, Bristol, UK (2017); and Modern Art Oxford (2017).
Her work is in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; National Museums, Liverpool; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Royal Academy, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate, London; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, among others.
