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.