LOT 22
RAFIEE GHANI
B. Kedah, 1962
Prelude to Garden Series, Circa 1998
Hand painted silk batik
102 x 109 cm
Comes with a receipt of purchase from Rusli Hashim Fine Art Gallery
PROVENANCE
Acquired from Rusli Hashim Fine Art Gallery in 1999
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
RM 10,000 – 18,000
Rafiee Ghani translates the exuberance of a tropical garden onto silk, filling the composition with brilliant colour, energetic forms and an abundantsense of life. Closely recalling his celebrated Garden series, the work is a joyful interplay of vivid blooms, lush foliage and organic shapes, wherecolour takes centre stage. The fluidity of hand painted batik lends an added softness and spontaneity to the composition, allowing the colours and forms to flow freely across the square format. The work captures Rafiee’s distinctive ability to transform the familiar beauty of nature into anexuberant, almost dreamlike celebration of colour and movement.