Artist: Jaled Muyaes (Chilean/Mexican, 1921 - 2007). Title: "Non-Objective Composition #10". 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 11/16 x 11 3/4 in. (221 x 298 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. [19243-0-150]