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Sotheby's Hong Kong Autumn Sales 2017 Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art

Highlighting

An Extremely Rare 19th-Century Oil Work

Fighting Animals

By Indonesian Romantic Artist Raden Saleh AND The First Dedicated Burmese Art Section

Anita Magsaysay - Ho, Mga Babaeng may Hawak ng mga Basket ng Prutas (Women with Baskets and Fruits)

1958, Oil on canvas, 77 x 102 cm, Est. HK$ 5,000,000-7,000,000/US$ 640,000-895,000 (30 September Evening Sale)

Modern and Contemporary Art Evening Sale: 30 September Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art Day Sale: 1 October

Hong Kong, 18 September 2017 Sotheby's Hong Kong Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art Autumn Sales will be held from 30 September to 1 October, presenting more than 200 lots with a combined estimate of approximately HK$70 million / US$8.9 million*. Much anticipated debut artworks from Myanmar will be featured alongside Indonesian masterworks from a distinguished private collection, as well as masterpieces from maestros including Raden Saleh, Anita Magsaysay-Ho, Le Pho, Cheong Soo Pieng, Romualdo Frederico Locatelli, Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur De Merprès, among many others.

Mok Kim Chuan, Sotheby's Head of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, said, "Sotheby's has been playing a pioneering role in showcasing new genres and artists at auction. This season we are excited to present two new locales on the map of Southeast Asian art collecting - Myanmar and Bali. Still a relatively fresh category at auction, Burmese art has a long tradition and significant artistic value which we plan to introduce to our collectors through the debut of a dedicated section of Burmese paintings in our day sale. Additionally, we also look forward to presenting an exotic Bali-themed single-owner collection across the two-day sales, alongside a series of exceptional Vietnamese lacquer works and a gripping 19th- century oil work by Raden Saleh." ART OF MYANMAR: A NEW FRONTIER

Burmese painting has a long and illustrious history dating back to the Buddhist mural paintings of Pagan during the 12th century. For the first time, Sotheby's will present a series of 12 Burmese paintings at the Day Sale on 1 October, spanning from leading artists in the post-World War II period to modernists in the 1990s. The selection includes works from Rangoon School artists such as U Ngwe Gaing (1901-67) and U San Win (1905-81), Mandalay School's U Ba Thet (1903-72), as well as Min Wae Aung (b. 1960) who rose to fame following the opening up of the country's economy in 1988. These will be seen in addition to works from Moat Thone (b.1954), San Minn (b. 1948), Aung Myint (b.1946), Nyien Chan Su (b.1973), Min Zaw

U Ngwe Gaing

Elephants and Trucks with Logs

1965

Oil on canvas, 67 x 91 cm

Est. HK$300,000-500,000 (US$38,400-64,000)

1 October Day Sale

(b.1972) and Zaw Win Pe (b.1960) - the second and third waves of modernists who are best known for conveying a sense of rebellion and subversion through their works.

NAVIGATING MODERNITY: THE ART OF VIETNAMESE LACQUER

An important part of Vietnamese artistic legacy, lacquer paintings often depict representations of nature, people, and landscapes, and are inextricably tied with the culture, customs and history of the country. In the Evening Sale on 30 September, a total of three exceptional pieces - all created in the 1940s by renowned lacquer masters Pham Hau, Nguyen Gia Tri and Maison des Beaux - Arts de l'Indochine - will be presented.

Pham Hau

A Family of Deer in a Forest Lacquer on wood panel, in 3 parts

Each: 100 x 93 cm;

Overall: 100 x 279 cm

Est. HK$800,000-1,500,000 (US$ 103,000-192,000)

30 September Evening Sale

FEROCITY UNLEASHED: RADEN SALEH'S GRIPPING MASTERPIECE

Out of Raden Saleh's wide-ranging oeuvre of historical paintings and portraitures - all rare finds on the market - the artist is perhaps most critically acclaimed for the technical and compositional wonder of his 'Fighting Animals' series. The astounding and immensely precious Fighting Animals, executed circa 1850, features a group of beasts revelling in their muscular physicality, clamouring over each other in vivid ferocity. In the 1820s,

Raden Syarif Bustaman Saleh

Fighting Animals

Circa 1850

Oil on canvas laid on board, 67 x 96.5 cm Estimate upon request

30 September Evening Sale

Raden Salen travelled across Europe on a stipend awarded by the King of the Netherlands and became inspired by the Romantic works which he encountered on his journey. When Raden Saleh returned to Java in 1852, he was the only local painter at the time to achieve such

mastery of European art: no other would achieve such renown or acclaim until decades after his death. It is often said that the artist's works breathed a local perspective into European painting: not only do they witness and narrate the primal, confrontational Tropics, they also possess the local voice of expressive rebellion within the colonial structures in which he had to operate.

UNRAVELLING BEAUTY: THE ISLAND OF BALI Property from a Private Asian Collection

Also presented across the two-day sales is an exceptional group of paintings from a private Asian collector, each depicting Bali in all its alluring beauty. Bali occupies a crucial position in Southeast Asian art - not merely as a geographic backdrop for paintings, but also as a place of sensual beauty and earthly delights in the artistic imagination. In assembling these nine stellar works, the collector not only created a fine chronology of modern painting in Bali, but also shed light on a number of long-running artistic debates regarding the very state of Indonesian representation and self-expression among the artworks themselves.

Adrien Jean Le Mayeur De Merprès

La Pergola (The Arbour)

Oil on canvas, in original handcarved Balinese frame, 100 x 120 cm

Est. HK$6,000,000-9,000,000 (US$770,000-1,160,000)

30 September Evening Sale

OTHER MAJOR HIGHLIGHTS

Anita Magsaysay-Ho

Women with Baskets and Fruits

1958, oil on canvas, 77 x 102cm

Est. HK$5,000,000-7,000,000 (US$640,000-895,000)

30 September Evening Sale

Gracing the cover of this season's evening sale catalogue, Women with Baskets and Fruits is a signature work by Anita Magsaysay-Ho that showcases her painterly style at the very heights of her expressivity. Fresh to the market, the work is an important example of the artist's modernist style in the 1950s, characterised by tight, complex compositions, vivid colouring and an emphasis on movement through bold brushstrokes. The heartening depiction pays homage to Arcadian life and elevates it into a joyous celebration of the light-hearted vitality of the Filipino women.

It is a work of exceptional provenance as Woman with Baskets

and Fruits originates directly from the collection of Mr. George C. C. Ho, the artist's brother-in-law who was also an avid art collector and supporter of Anita.

Christine Ay Tjoe The Freedom Process 2014

Oil on canvas, 180 x 200 cm Est. HK$900,000-1,500,000

(US$116,000-192,000)

30 September Evening Sale

Fernando Zobel, Saeta 1956

Oil on canvas 93 x 152 cm

Est. HK$ 2,000,000-3,000,000

(US$ 256,000-384,000)

30 September Evening Sale

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