Artist: Jaled Muyaes (Chilean/Mexican, 1921 - 2007). Title: "Non-objective Composition #20". Medium: Gouache on paper. Date: Composed 1947. Dimensions: Overall size: 11 3/4 x 9 in. (298 x 229 mm). Image size: 11 3/4 x 9 in. (298 x 229 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed and dated, lower right. Good condition. 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. [19781-0-350]