LOT 55
KHALIL IBRAHIM
B. Kelantan, 1934 – 2018
Festival III (East Coast Series), 1973
Batik
90 x 70 cm
Private Collection, Australia
Signed on lower left. Raya Gallery Label on Verso. Provenance: Raya Gallery Melbourne
RM 70,000 – 150,000
Khalil’s preference for the human figure has led him to create iconic images of men and women in the East Coast Malay fishing villages against stark backgrounds of blues and greens and watercolour landscape of villages. This Festival III, 1973 is one of the amazing artworks Khalil has created over the span of his artistic career. Throughout his long career, which spans over 50 years, Khalil has held a number of solo and group exhibitions in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Switzerland. His masterful skills in drawing, watercolour and acrylic, are in styles that move from the almost real to the almost abstract.