A pioneering figure in Brazil’s mid-20th century geometric abstraction movement, Ione Saldanha mined the liminal zone between painting and sculpture to explore questions of chaos vs order, artificial vs organic, and repetition vs variety. The unique chess set exclusively for sale at themust.co dates from the late 1960s, a critical period of intense activity for Saldanha, during which she had a solo show at the influential Galeria Relevo in Rio de Janeiro and participated in the São Paulo biennial, among other career milestones.