Ricardo Mujica

“The Death of Neda”   Oil on Canvas  58” x 58”   $22,000

The Death of Neda

This is a caption from an article written in the NYT on June 22, 2009, by Nazila Fathi.

Click here to read entire article: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/world/middleeast/23neda.html

The event that went viral and touched the world in 2009.

Mujica was moved to create this piece of Neda Agha-Soltan in part by her story-- a free-spirited young aspiring musician who had spent her life as a theologian only to be martyred by a government supported paramilitary group-- but majorly because of the subsequent events that came to pass after her martyrdom. Learning of the Iranian government's efforts to silence a nation, prevent citizens from organizing memorial services & deny her funeral rites to be performed; Mujica's only thoughts remained with her mother, Hajar Rostami Motlagh. The eternal unspoken fear of every parent echoed in his chest, "will this be the last time I give my blessing, the last time I smell your hair, the last time I hear your laugh, our last embrace?" Mujica, himself a father, wanted the opportunity to reunite Rostami Motlagh with her daughter, one last time. To rewrite a narrative with no happy ending, but hopefully a semblance of peace.

“The Death of Neda”
Oil on Canvas
58” x 58”
$22,000