LOT 32
ABDUL LATIFF MOHIDIN
B. Negeri Sembilan, 1941
Red Landscape, 2014
Oil on canvas
168 x 244 cm
Signed and dated “Latiff ‘14” on lower right
PROVENANCE
Illustrated on Pages 66-67 of Latiff Mohidin – Seascape Recent Paintings from 2010 – 2014 exhibition book organized and published by Opera Gallery, Singapore and The Edge Galerie, Kuala Lumpur in 2014.
Private Collection, Singapore
RM 830,000 – 1,350,000
Monumental in scale and intensely atmospheric, Red Landscape is a powerful example of Abdul Latiff Mohidin’s celebrated late Seascape paintings. Bathed in a commanding red palette, the work transforms landscape into an almost dreamlike vision, with land, sea and horizon dissolving into bold organic forms and expressive textures. The result is both mysterious and meditative, nature distilled through the artist’s distinctly poetic modernist vocabulary.
Red Landscape belongs to the important body of paintings presented in Seascape: Recent Paintings from 2010–2014, held at Opera Gallery, Singapore and subsequently at The Edge Galerie, Kuala Lumpur in 2014.
Latiff Mohidin is one of Malaysia’s most important modernist artists, celebrated internationally as a painter, sculptor and poet. His landmark Pago-Pago series and later bodies of work, including Mindscape, Gelombang and Seascape, have shaped the course of Southeast Asian modern art.