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Affandi

Born in Cirebon, March 11, 1907. He is considered as the
Indonesian Artist par excellent. He was the founder of
the Himpunan Pelukis Masyarakat (Community’s Artists
Association (1946) and Himpunan Pelukis Rakyat (People’s
Artists Association) in 1947,Affandi was committed to creating a new artistic
idiom for Indonesia. In the early of 1950s he traveled to India for a grant from
Indian Government, he held several one-man shows in several Indian Cities,
United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Italy. He received an
Indonesian Art Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture (1969), the
Dag Hammerskjoeld Prize from Italy (1977) and an Indonesian Government
the First Class Merit (1978). His works were exhibited in major exhibitions
in Asia, Europe, and the Americas and were also be acquired by major art
collectors and institutions all over the world since the 1950s.

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AFFANDI
(Cirebon, 1907 – 1990)
Sun, Feet and Hands, 1979

Oil on canvas: 100 x 80 cm
Signed and dated, lower right: A.1979

Literature:
Sardjana Sumichan, Affandi, Volume II, Published by
Bina Lestari Budaya Foundation, Jakarta and Singapore
Art Museum, Singapore, 2007, Page. 282

SGD 85,000 - 120,000
IDR 850.000.000 - 1.200.000.000

Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

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AFFANDI
(Cirebon, 1907 – 1990)
Perahu Jukung, 1975

Oil on canvas: 49 x 65.5 cm
Signed and dated, lower right: A.1975

SGD 57,000 - 75,000
IDR 570.000.000 - 750.000.000

Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

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Ahmad Sadali

He graduated from the Department of Art, Bandung
Institute ofTechnology (ITB) in 1953, where he later taught,
becoming a Professor in the Art Department in 1972. He
received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to study
at Iowa State University and the New York Art Student's League in USA
1956-1957. He also studied in The Netherlands and Australia in 1977, a
Pakistan in 1980. He held his solo exhibition in Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung
and Yogyakarta. He also has participated in several group exhibitions such as
in Indonesia, China, Japan,Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, India,Vietnam, USA,
Switzerland, UK, France, Brazil and Saudi Arabia. He received some Awards
including the Anugerah Seni Art Award from the Indonesian Government in
1972 and awards from the Jakarta Arts Council at the Indonesian Painting
Biennials in 1974 and 1978.

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Mr. Nasar, Ahmad Sadali’s nephew, with the artwork 003
AHMAD SADALI
(Garut,West Java, 1924 - Bandung, 1987)
Site Plan, 1971

Mixed media on hardboard: 122 x 170 cm
Signed and dated, upper right: Sadali71

Exhibition:
Pameran Maestro Seni Rupa Indonesia, Sadali, Galeri
Nasional Indonesia, 25 Juni-14 Juli 2014

SGD 95,000 - 130,000
IDR 950.000.000 - 1.300.000.000

Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

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004
AHMAD SADALI
(Garut,West Java, 1924 - Bandung, 1987)
Portrait of Iqbal Rausen Fikry
Oil on canvas: 78 x 67 cm

This lot is accompanied with statement letter
of authenticity from the artist’s family
SGD 14,000 - 18,000
IDR 140.000.000 - 180.000.000
Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

Mr. Ravi A. Salim, son of Ahmad Sadali, with the artwork

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Lee Man Fong

He was born in Canton, China, 1913. He
arrived at Singapore at young age then
later moved to Jakarta. He has shown great
artistic talent since young. He participated
in the Association’s First Art Exhibition
invited by the head of the Dutch East
Indies Associations (1931). Lee Man Fong
was a successful commercial artist before
engaged in full time painting in 1941. His
successful exhibitions in Bandung and
Jakarta made him a fast growing artist at
that time. He received scholarship from
the Dutch government to study painting
in Holland (1946). In 1952 he returned
to Indonesia and gained more credits as
well as acknowledgement. He was officially
become a presidential palace’s painter and
chief curators of its collection in 1961 and
compiled a 5 volume edition of President
Sukarno’s art collection. He died in 1988
and remembered as a western vigorous
painter and an oriental unique oil painting
painter.

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LEE MAN FONG
(Canton, China 1913 – Singapore 1988)
A Couple of Horses

Oil on board: 102 x 50 cm
Signed and stamped in chinese character,
lower right

SGD 75,000 - 90,000
IDR 750.000.000 - 900.000.000

Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

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Lee’s subject matter included
wide range of human figures,
landscapes and animals
particularly those commonly
found in Chinese brush paintings,
such as goldfish, doves, chickens,
rabbits, horses and tigers. He
developed his paintings by
creating a personal expression
based on observation of live and
nature around him. His paintings
often are able to transport
us to forgotten places in the
wilderness, where old trees,
withered mambo grow out of
hardened rocks. The present lot
was one of the many themes
about cock and hen. The pair
standing on the hardened rock
occupies the foreground, while
the background is twisted
branches of withered bamboo.
Lee showed how it is possible to
marry many of the most essential
elements of both classical
painting traditions – light,shadow
and realism on the other hand,
and expressionism, experienced
calligraphic brushwork, and the
balance between form and
emptiness on the other.

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LEE MAN FONG
(Canton, China 1913 – Singapore 1988)
Rooster

Oil on board: 102 x 49 cm
Signed and stamped in chinese character,
lower right

SGD 57,000 - 75,000
IDR 570.000.000 - 750.000.000

Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

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Lee Man Fong was one of a rare artist who received honor by critics and
collectors across Asia.As an Oriental artist, Lee has renewed and transformed
Western oil painting by imbuing it with the essence of Chinese ink painting,
achieving a mutual identity between subject and object, at the same time
vastly opening the restrictions on traditional Chinese painting. In short, he
created a unique “Man fong style”.

Doves has become Lee Man Fong’s beloved and sought after works in spite
of Goldfishes and other animals such as horses, cockatoos, tigers and dogs.
Lee Man Fong’s painting of Doves is noteworthy. Since some forty years ago,
his animal themes had made a far reaching accomplishment and recently
eagerly sought after in Europe and America. A testimony to his mastery of
technique and realization of theme, this painting depicts the world of the
doves as peaceful and calm, but at the same time dynamic.The doves in pairs
symbolize a good match, which may be further extended to mean “peaceful
coexistence.

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LEE MAN FONG
(Canton, China 1913 – Singapore 1988)
Doves

Oil on board: 104 x 50 cm
Signed and stamped in chinese character,upper
right

SGD 33,500 - 47,500
IDR 335.000.000 - 475.000.000

Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

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Hendra Gunawan

Born in Bandung, 1918. He taught at the Indonesian Fine
Art Academy (ASRI),Yogyakarta in 1957. His paintings dating
from the late 1950s and the 1960s – believed by many to be
the best period in his artistic career – are scarce. He took part in founding the
Front Seniman (Artists Front) in Bandung, and Pelukis Rakyat (People’s Artists)
in Yogyakarta. He also established the art club Pusaka Sunda together with
Barli, Obon and some other friends. He is undoubtedly one of the Indonesia’s
greatest pioneers of modern art and was considered to be one of the best
and most versatile painters in Indonesia. He died in Bali 1983.

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HENDRA GUNAWAN
(Bandung, 1918 – 1983)
Gembala Kerbau, 1975

Oil on canvas: 40 x 100 cm
Signed and dated, lower right: Hendra KW.75

SGD 67,500 - 77,500
IDR 675.000.000 - 775.000.000

Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

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S. Sudjojono

Born in Kisaran, Sumatra, 1914. He
first studied painting under the artist
Pringadi, and later from Jasaki, a Japanese
painter. In 1937 he founded the
Persagi Indonesian Artists Association
in Jakarta. In 1970 he was awarded
recognition in art by the Indonesian
government. His works have been
exhibited in the Netherlands and in the
Fukuoka Art Museum in Japan (1980).
Local exhibitions have been held in
Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Denpasar and
Bandung. He died in Jakarta (1986).

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S. Sudjojono, a self-taught artist who trained briefly at a Taman Siswa school,
is widely regarded as the driving force behind the establishment of modern
art in Indonesia. Through his writing and critics as a member of PERSAGI
– Indonesian Artists Association, Sudjojono articulated a new generation’s
reaction against the idyllic academic and colonial style of Mooi Indie (Beautiful
Indies) school.

Sudjojono’s favourite sucjects were ordinary Indonesians. Quite often his
figures inhabit dramatic urban or rural landscapes in an almost epic sense.
Although he rejected the idealized landscape of Moooi Indie Scholl, Sudjojono
returned to the depiction of scenery in a much more impressionistic manner.
His observation of his sorroundings seemed spontaneous, as though, as the
they were snapshots of views that appealed to him.

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S. SUDJOJONO
(Kisaran, 1914 – 1986)
Tirta Samudra, 1952

Oil on canvas: 94 x 114 cm
Signed and dated, middle right: S.Sudjojono, SS.101. Djak 1952
Titled, lower left:Tirta Samudra

Provenance:
H. Said Sadikin, brother of Ali Sadikin former Governor of Jakarta

SGD 33,500 - 47,500
IDR 335.000.000 - 475.000.000

Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

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Besides landscape, S. Sudjojono also enjoyed painting flowers. Whenever he
saw an attractive floral arrangement, he would paint it, usually capturing it
in a fluid, impressionistic representation. As a singer Rose often won trophy as
well as bucket of flowers. Sudjojono’s often present his paintings of the object
as a more everlasting gift for his wife, Rose, in lieu of giving actual flowers.

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010
S. SUDJOJONO
(Kisaran, 1914 – 1986)
Bunga, 1963

Oil on hardboard: 74 x 54 cm
Signed and dated, lower right: S. Sudjojono, Natal, 1963

This lot is accompanied with a certificate of authenticity
from The Museum

SGD 23,500 - 30,000
IDR 235.000.000 - 300.000.000

Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

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011
S. SUDJOJONO
(Kisaran, 1914 – 1986)
Ketoprak, 1971

Oil on canvas: 50 x 35 cm
Signed and titled, lower area: Ketoprak, S. Sudjojono
Signed and dated, upper left: SS.101.Djak 1971

This lot is accompanied with a certificate of authenticity
from The Museum

SGD 26,500 - 38,000
IDR 265.000.000 - 380.000.000
Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

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Basoeki Abdullah

Born in Solo, January 27, 1915, he is the second son of
Abdullah Soerjosoebroto, a prominent landscape painter.
He studied at the Academia van Beeldende Kunsten in
The Hague, the Netherlands. His work includes painting of the Queen of
Netherlands, King of Thailand, President of Philippines, Sultan of Brunei and
many other important figures. He is best known as a portrait painter as well
as landscapes, fauna, flora and other themes. His works have been exhibited
in various European countries, South East Asia and Indonesia.

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012 Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia
BASOEKI ABDULLAH
(Solo, 1915 – Jakarta, 1993)

White Silk

Oil on canvas: 78 x 119 cm
Signed, lower right: Basoeki Abdullah

Literature:
Agus Dermawan T, Basoeki Abdullah, Painter of Kings, Published
by PT. Dwi Samapersada, Jakarta, Page. 198

SGD 28,500 - 35,000
IDR 285.000.000 - 350.000.000

Basoeki Abdullah is one of the most prominent Indonesian maestros in
portrait paintings.The Late artist was well-known for his realistic paintings.
Besides painting of natural beauty and sensuous landscape, he is also
noted for his portraits of beautiful women, as well paintings of scenes
from legends that are also tempered with the same lyrical and overly
sensual treatment. His great fond of paintings womenis figure perhaps
derived from his great interest in exploring the beauty of women that is
attractive to paint in any way. The artist gain the public recognition after
winning a painting competation held in conjunction with the Netherland’s
Queen Juliana ascension to throne on 6 September 1948.

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Srihadi Soedarsono

Born in Solo, December 4, 1931. In 1958 he studied
fine arts at the Institute of Technology Bandung and the
Ohio State University, United States (1960 – 1962). His
works has been exhibited in Indonesia, the United States,
Australia and Brazil. He received cultural awards from both the Indonesian
government (1971) and Australian (1973). In 1978 and 1987, he received
the highest award in the Biennial Exhibition in Jakarta. Srihadi is currently a
senior lecturer in painting and drawing at the Jakarta Institute of Arts and the
Bandung Institute of Technology.

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013
SRIHADI SOEDARSONO
(Solo, 1931)
Bedaya-Fight For Freedom Love and Peace, 2011

Oil on canvas: 180 x 200 cm
Signed and dated, upper right: Srihadi S.2011
Signed, titled and dated on the reverse

SGD 70,000 - 90,000
IDR 700.000.000 - 900.000.000

Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

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SRIHADI SOEDARSONO
(Solo, 1931)
Abstrak, 1957

Oil on canvas: 60 x 45 cm
Signed and dated, lower right: Srihadi S.1957

SGD 9,500 - 11,500
IDR 95.000.000 - 115.000.000

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Arie Smit

Born in Zaandam, the Netherlands, 1916. He was a student
of the Academy of Arts in Rotterdam before working as
lithographer for the Dutch Colonial Army in the Dutch
Indies prior to the Second World War. He moved to
Bali in 1956 to engage in full time painting and became
an Indonesian Citizen, produced as well as taught painting at the Bandung
Institute of Technology (ITB). Many of his paintings depict the nature of his
surrounding environment. He had several solo exhibitions in Bandung Institute
of Technology, The Honolulu East West Center, and the Center of Strategic
and International Studies in Jakarta. He received the “Dharma Kusuma” art
awards from the local government of Bali.

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ARIE SMIT
(Zaandam,The Netherlands, 1916 – Bali, 2016)
Melasti, 2002

Acrylic on canvas: 50 x 90 cm
Signed and dated, lower right: Arie Smit, 2002
Signed, titled and dated on the reverse

This lot is accompanied with a certificate of authenticity
from the Artist

SGD 35,000 - 45,000
IDR 350.000.000 - 450.000.000

Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

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ARIE SMIT
(Zaandam,The Netherlands, 1916 – Bali, 2016)

Bali Village, ca. 1960

Oil on canvas laid on board: 51 x 41 cm
Signed, lower left: Arie

This lot is accompanied with certificate from Nyoman
Sumerta Fine Arts Gallery

SGD 9,000 - 15,000
IDR 90.000.000 - 150.000.000

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Chen Wen Hsi

Born in 1906, Guangdong (China).Wen Hsi was an artist, an academician
and a gallerist. He studied art at the Shanghai College of Art in 1928.
Wen Hsi settled down in Singapore at 1948 and became an art teacher
at The Chinese High School and taught there from 1949 to 1968,
concurrently teaching art at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts from
1951 to 1959. As a passionate art educator he had greatly influenced many of Singapore’s
early Chinese artists. Wen Hsi was a great observant of nature. Almost everything can
be the master’s inspiration to create exciting work namely, landscapes, human figures
and animals. Chicken, gibbons, herons, carps and squirrels are some of his favourite
subjects. Wen Hsi’s constant eagerness to strike for something new led him to learn
finger painting – a technique that dates from the Tang Dynasty. This drawing style has
enabled him to produce unpredictable broken stroke on paper

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CHEN WEN HSI
(Baigong, Caozhu, 1906 – Singapore, 1992)
Two Gibbons

Chinese ink on rice paper: 90 x 50 cm
Signed in chinese character, stamped upper left

SGD 21,500 - 27,000
IDR 215.000.000 - 270.000.000

Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

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CHEN WEN HSI
(Baigong, Caozhu, 1906 – Singapore, 1992)
Squirrels

Coloured ink on paper: 67 x 43 cm
Signed and sealed, upper right

SGD 11,000 - 13,000
IDR 110.000.000 - 130.000.000

Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

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Cheong Soo P ieng

Cheong Soo Pieng received
formal art education in China,
and developed a distinctive
style throughout his career in
Singapore. Cheong first studied
art at Xiamen Academy of
Art and subsequently enrolled
at the Xinhua Academy of
Fine Arts in Shanghai. After
arriving in Singapore in 1946,
he lectured at the NAFA from
1947 to 1961. Indians and
Cows, an oil painting of 1949
is representative of Cheong’s
work in the late-1940s.
Cheong’s innovative spirit drove
him ceaselessly to test new
ideas and explore new visions.
Seaside, executed in 1951, was
one such experiment.The motif
of the sea is not obvious at first
glance

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CHEONG SOO PIENG
(b. China, 1917-Singapore 1983)

Fishing Village, 1959

Ink and colour on paper: 95 x 43.5 cm
Signed and dated, lower left: Soo Pieng’59
Signed and stamped in chinese character,
upper left

Provenance:
Private Collection, Jakarta
Christies’s Hongkong, 27 May 2018

SGD 53,000 - 65,000
IDR 530.000.000 - 650.000.000

Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

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But Muchtar

Broertje Muchtar Soebandi also known as But Muchtar was born
in Bandung, December 30th 1930. He studied art at the Bandung
Institute of Technology (ITB) from 1952 until 1958 under the
guidance of painter Ries Mulder and Sumardja.He continued his study in Rhode
Island School of design, USA from 1960 to 1961 and later continued to study
sculpture under Jose De Creeft in New York’s Arts Students League, USA.

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BUT MUCHTAR
(Bandung, 1930 - 1996)
Penunggang Kuda, 1963

Oil on canvas: 69 x 99 cm
Signed and dated, lower right: But.MR.1963

SGD 24,000 - 28,000
IDR 240.000.000 - 280.000.000

Lot location: Jakarta, Indonesia

Mr. Panca, But Muchtar’s son with the artwork

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I Gusti Ketut Kobot

Born in Pangosekan, Ubud - Bali in 1917. Kobot was a member
of Pita Maha painters group since 1936 -1942, but unlike other
painters in the group, his painting style is very individualist. Most
of his paintings reflect the story of Ramayana and Mahabharata.
During the year of 1920s, many painters in Ubud and its
surrounding area were influence by western painters like Rudolf Bonnet and Walter
Spies. Some Bali painters including Kobot still used traditional theme combined with
new influence. In 1975, he held his solo exhibition at Puri Lukisan, Museum of Ubud.
In the same year he joined in the exhibition held in Sydney, Australia, together with
young painters of Pengosekan. In 1978, he received an art award of Wijaya Kusuma,
from the Regional Government of Gianyar and Dharma Kusuma Award from the Bali
government

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