LOT 80
KHALIL IBRAHIM
B. Kelantan, 1934 – 2018
Vivacity – Series, 2006
Acrylic on canvas
90 x 121 cm
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
Signed and dated “Khalil Ibrahim 006” on lower right
RM 80,000 – 100,000
There is something sublime, ethereal and yes, perhaps, even a little spiritual about the Expressionistic abstract works created by that master Malaysian artist – Khalil Ibrahim. Ever since his art apprenticeship in 1960s England (at St.Martin’s School of Art, central London) meeting Malaysian abstract/ expressionist artist Ibrahim Hussein (known for Gardu – 1968 and My Father the Astronaut – 1970) and, later, meeting with Malaysian Expressionist painter/poet Latiff Mohidin (famous for his Pago Pago series) – there had been a distinctly abstract undercurrent to many of Khalil Ibrahim’s works. There seems little doubt that studying at an English art school, learning fresh ways of seeing, coupled with having contact with artists discovering new approaches to their art and lives, changed the way Khalil approached his own artistic works.