Lot 71 | 27 November 2022

 

 

LOT 71

ABDUL LATIFF MOHIDIN

B. Negeri Sembilan, 1941

Schwalmerin – Berlin Series, 1962

Signed and dated AL 62 on lower right. Inscribed AP Schwalmerin on lower edge of paper. Name, date, and title on verso

Woodblock print on paper, Artist’s Proof

24 x 18 cm

Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur

RM 6,000 – 10,000

An artist’s proof is an impression of a print taken in the printmaking process to see the current printing state of a plate while the plate (or stone, or woodblock) is being worked on by the artist. A proof may show a clearly incomplete image, often called a working proof or trial impression, but in modern practice is usually used to describe an impression of the finished work that is identical to the numbered copies. Abdul Latiff’s artist’s proof of the Schwalmerin – Berlin Series, 1960’s illustrates a suburban village with subject on the foreground, engrossed in crafting of some kind, with German- style houses at the background. One of the early modenists in Malaysia, he studied at the Hochschile for Buldende Kunst (Academy of Fine Arts) in Berlin from 1960-1964 on a German scholarship. Naturally, his earlier influences bear traces of German expressionism, as seen in this piece which was completed in 1962.