Carracci Bachus by Raqib Shaw features a scene from one of the recent paintings titled The Martyrdom of Icarus (After Honthorst and Carracci), a painting inspired in part by Annibale Carracci’s Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne. Raqib Shaw often depicts otherworldly and fantastical scenes with a range of mythological and literary figures, representing enigmatic and provocative subjects. Etching a la poupée is a method in which all the colors are applied to a plate with cloth threads and the image is printed in one go.

Raqib Shaw (b. 1974, in Calcutta) is a Kashmiri artist who lives and works in London. He is known for his opulent and intricately detailed paintings of phantasmagorical dreamscapes, their surfaces inlaid with colorful jewels and enamels. His works reveal an eclectic combination of Western and Eastern influences, from Persian carpets and Northern Renaissance painting to industrial materials and Japanese lacquer. Shaw has exhibited internationally, most notably in “Without Boundary,” MoMA New York (2006), “Around the world in Eighty Days,” Major solo exhibitions have included the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2006), “Art Now,” Tate Britain (2006), The Metropolitan Museum, New York (2008), Kunsthalle Wien (2009), Manchester Art Gallery (2013), Whitworth Art Gallery (2017), and in “Reinventing the Old Masters” Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (2018).