Lot 78 | 27 November 2022

 

 

LOT 78

AHMAD NAZRI ABDULLAH

B. Australia, 1937

Untitled, 2010

Signed Nazri on lower left

Oil on canvas

60 x 50 cm

Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur

RM 2,200 – 5,000

Ahmad Nazri Abdullah was born in 1937, in Melbourne, Australia. He studied at Swinburne Technical College when he was 15 and his career began as a regional creative director for an advertising firm before becoming a lecturer at the Mara Institute of Technology (ITM), now known as UiTM. He was then appointed Selangor Royal Court Artist by Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah. He has painted 145 official portraits, 12 of them are of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.