Southeast Asian Drawings

Large Balinese art painting in oil on fabric with flowers and birds. Frame in green lacquered wood. Signed by the author: J.Wikarma'90. Very good/excellent vintage condition.  

Nice sample of this series of the well known Philippine artist Jojo Legaspi , also master of drawing in charcoal .the image Zise is 8.5 x 11.75 inches , a...

AUNG KHIN (1921-1996) Attributed - vintage impressionist style oil pastel and colored graphite drawing on black paper - with another drawing verso - unsigned...

AUNG KHIN (1921-1996) Attributed - Vintage Impressionist style oil pastel and graphite drawing on black paper - featuring a young a Burmese girl perched on a...

Nantawant "Mickey", 2010 hyperrealist drawing of Brazilian model and actress Alessandra Ambrosio wearing a Mickey Mouse ear hat. Dimensions with f...

Theo Meier (1908-1982) “A Balinese woman with offerings” Signed, dated '36 and annotated Mankok (the name of the sitter) lower left Sanguine on paper, measures: 57 x 41.5 cm In a handmade and hand painted frame with address: Max Kno¨ll, Herberggasse 4/1, Basel. Provenance: Private collection, Basel (acquired directly from the artist) Private collection, London Note: Theo Meier was born in Basel, where he attended art school and became a successful portrait painter. However, after visiting an exhibition in Basel of Tahitian paintings by Paul Gaugin, he decided to follow in Gaugin’s footsteps and go to the South Pacific. To finance his voyage, he founded a club in which every member pledged a monthly sum in return of which they could choose one of Meier’s paintings upon his return. In 1932, at the age of 24, he embarked on his voyage to the South Sea. In Tahiti, he certainly discovered the beauty of the colours of the tropical world but the simplicity of the inhabitants, he had seen in Gaugin’s paintings turned out to be more in the artist’s fantasy than in reality. He returned to Basel but in 1935 again was on his way to the South Sea. In 1936 he arrived in Bali, planning to stay there for two or three weeks, but thirty years later he was still there. In Bali “a delirium laid hold of me which even today has not subsided”, he was to write much later. The present drawing was made during his first “delirius” year in Bali. In Bali, he settled and found inspiration and friendship with other artists including Walter Spies...

A Collection of Thirteen Ink and Chalk Drawings by Johan Gerard Sinia (1875-1948) All framed in gilt-metal or giltwood frames Sinia started his professional career as an army off...