Nobody Looked

Ren runs up with news: Yllanes, the lost Bolivian painter, stayed in New York. Granny Ume: so the letters suggest; the 1950 census lists him at the Columbia-owned building on West 115th Street where his art was later left. Mio asks how he vanished. A letter from November 1962 says he died in New York days earlier, though one historian says 1960. The man was overlooked, and so were his paintings. Poko: nobody looked.

The Bolivian painter Alejandro Mario Yllanes, whose abandoned works now sell to museums, did not vanish abroad as some experts guessed: the 1950 census lists him at the Columbia-owned building on West 115th Street where his art was later left, a November 1962 letter says he had died in New York days earlier, though one historian puts his death in 1960, and the dealers who revived him say his legacy was simply overlooked.

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RenGranny UmeMioPoko