Mauro "Malang" Santos (Filipino, 1928-2017), Seated Woman

gouche on paper, signed and dated "12 - V - 93" at lower right, matted and framed under glass.
Image size 13 7/8 x 10 5/8 in.; Frame dimensions 21 x 17 3/8 in.
"Malang" was a Filipino award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and fine arts figural painter, often working in a Cubist style. As a comics artist he is best known for the series Kosme the Cop, Chain Gang Charlie and Beelzebub. Malang studied at the College of Fine Arts of the University of the Philippines in 1946. He stopped attending formal school at the age of 19 in order to work for the art department of the Manila Chronicle. While with the newspaper, he apprenticed under cartoonist Liborio "Gat" Gatbonton. During 1972, Malang attended art classes at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California, under a three-month scholarship. In 1955, Malang established the Bughouse, a gallery specializing in cartoons together with cartoonist colleagues such as Liborio Gatbonton, Larry Alcala, Hugo Yonzon, and Elmer Abustan.
From the Collection of Dr. Antonio Cusi, Fayetteville, North Carolina
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Good estate condition - not examined out of the frame.