Artist: Jaled Muyaes (Chilean/Mexican, 1921 - 2007).
Title: "Non-Objective Composition #22".
Medium: Color crayon drawing.
Date: Composed 1948.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 15/16 x 8 7/8 in. (303 x 225 mm). Image size: 11 15/16 x 8 7/8 in. (303 x 225 mm).
Lot Note(s): Initialed and dated in crayon, 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. [20216-0-300]