Lot #119: JALED MUYAES - Composicion #7 - Pen and ink on paper

 

Artist: Jaled Muyaes (Chilean/Mexican, 1921 - 2007).
Title: "Composicion #7".
Medium: Pen and ink on paper.
Date: Composed 1953.
Dimensions: Overall size: 8 3/16 x 7 13/16 in. (208 x 198 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed "K." and dated. Muyaes always signed his work "Kena," “S. Kena," "Silvestre Kena," or "Silvestre;" or, if initialed, "K." or "S.K.". Cream wove paper. Very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Estela Ogazon Sanchez. 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. [27825-0-100]