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| Lot 019, Sketsa |
Abas Alibasjah was known as the most senior abstract artist in his generation. He has started drawing while he was studying at Holandsche Inlandsche School. He decided to develop his artistic pursuit as a painter after his encounter with Barli Sasmitawinata, Hendra Gunawan, Sudjana Kerton, and Affandi at Keimin Bunka Sidhoso, a cultural institution formed by the Japanese government in Bandung. He became a student at the Indonesian Fine Arts Academy (ASRI) before he left to study in the Netherlands to become an internationally-acclaimed artist and art educator.
From the 1960s to early 1970s, together with other artists from the Jogja school, Alibasjah applied the modern idea of simplification through geometric and abstraction approach in his paintings, which later became a style he is well known of. Although he is well known for his oil paintings, Alibasjah did explore other media and techniques to express his artistic creation. For example, in Sketsa (lot #019), you will see pencil sketches of his signature surrealistic, distorted figures in forms, dating from the years 1966, 1983, and 2010. You will also find his experimentation with Batik technique in Abstract, Untitled, and The Dragon (lots #020-022), his 1977 fusion works that combine modern surrealist-abstract expression with the timeless beauty of the traditional wax-resist dyeing technique.
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