Live Auction 2906Asian 20th Century Art (Day Sale)
AFFANDI
Lot 2157

AFFANDI

Closed27 May 2012

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HKD 1,040,000

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AFFANDI
(Indonesian, 1907-1990)
Boats in a Storm
signed with artist's monogram (lower left)
oil on canvas
118 x 96 cm. (46 1/2 x 37 3/4 in.)
Painted in the 1960s

Gifted to a prominent educational institution in Washington D.C. in 1981
Christie's Amsterdam, 9-10 September 2008, Lot 464
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Private Collection, Singapore

Specialist note

Boats in a Storm (Lot 2157) is one of Affandi's most favoured compositions depicting a mountainous landscape on the left of the composition, with the sea stretching from the right of the picture deep into the left side. In some other works with this composition, Affandi paints still beach landscapes of Parangtritis beach in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In the present lot, a boat, vividly painted, is out in the raging sea close to the coast. A sense of immediacy is brilliantly conveyed by Affandi, highly evocative of place and time.