Lot #1365: JALED MUYAES - Still-life with Pitcher - Hand colored linocut

 

Artist: Jaled Muyaes (Chilean/Mexican, 1921 - 2007).
Title: "Still-life with Pitcher".
Medium: Hand colored linocut.
Date: Composed 1946.
Dimensions: Overall size: 9 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (248 x 210 mm). Image size: 6 5/8 x 6 1/8 in. (168 x 156 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $250
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $350/400
Lot Note(s): Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. Probably no edition. Kena rarely, if ever, editioned his prints. Ample margins.
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. [19782-0-250-NA]