Artist: Jaled Muyaes (Chilean/Mexican, 1921 - 2007).
Title: "Two Fish".
Medium: Ink and watercolor.
Date: Composed 1949.
Dimensions: Overall size: 8 15/16 x 13 13/16 in. (227 x 351 mm). Image size: 8 3/8 x 13 3/16 in. (213 x 335 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed "Kena '49," lower right. Comment(s): Muyaes signed his work "Kena," "S. Kena," "Silvestre Kena," "Silvestre," or, if initialed, "K." or "S.K." Works by Muyaes, a noted Mexican painter and sculptor, rarely appear on the market. Born in Chile, he moved to Mexico City as a young man and became an integral part of the intellectual circle there (e.g., he was intimately acquainted with the great poet Pablo Neruda during Neruda's Mexico years). Image copyright © The Estate of Jaled Muyaes. [19242-0-225]