LOT 57
ABDUL LATIFF MOHIDIN
B. Negeri Sembilan, 1941
Road Pago Pago Series, 1972
Ink and colour on paper
15 x 14 cm
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
Signed, titled and dated “Road Pago Pago Series ‘72 AL” across end of artwork. Illustrated on page 30 of the “777, Celebrating 7 Illustrious Years at KLAS” coffee table book published by KLAS in February 2019
RM 15,000 – 30,000
“I’m in my studio every day, but I mainly work in my mind.”
Latiff Mohidin’s works bear a distinctively cosmopolitan outlook in terms of the successful development of a modern abstract visual language and a sustained exploration of world art and literature.
It is the Pago Pago series that won him critical acclaim as one of Malaysia and Southeast Asia’s most important modern artists. This series brought about primitive and tribal essences into his works, and the artist recalls his travels to Thailand and Indochina as being the key development and inspiration to his work in this series. He meticulously sketched sacred monuments and nature. It is in this series that he fused stupa-like forms and natural plants and rock forms, focusing on the “energy-movement” of structures rather than their simple depiction. Using rapid strokes, Latiff‘s work conveys spontaneity and the subject matter of interlocking geometric and more organic forms would become recurrent in his practice.