LOT 68
KHALIL IBRAHIM
B. Kelantan, 1934 – 2018
Three Nude Figures, 2001
Ink on paper
27 x 37.5 cm
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
Signed and dated “Khalil Ibrahim 91” on lower right
RM 2,800 – 7,000
There is something sublime, ethereal and yes, perhaps, even a little spiritual about the Expressionistic abstract works created by the master Malaysian artist Khalil Ibrahim. Ever since his art apprenticeship in 1960s at St.Martin’s School of Art, central London to meeting Malaysian abstract/ expressionist artist Ibrahim Hussein (known for Gardu – 1968 and My Father the Astronaut – 1970) and, later, meeting with Malaysian Expressionist painter/poet Abdul Latiff Mohidin (famous for his Pago Pago series) , there had been a distinctly abstract undercurrent to many of Khalil Ibrahim’s works. There seems little doubt that studying at an English art school, learning fresh ways of seeing, coupled with having contact with artists discovering new approaches to their art and lives, changed the way Khalil approached his own artistic works.