MEN FISHING SANUR BEACH

Works from the Donald Friend Collection
Sydney
27 October 2013
85

I MADE DJATA

born 1922, Balinese
MEN FISHING SANUR BEACH

ink, wash and gouache on paper

32.0 x 24.5 cm

signed lower right: MaDe djaTe

Estimate: 
$1,000 - 2,000
Sold for $3,720 (inc. BP) in Auction 31 - 27 October 2013, Sydney
Catalogue text

A self-taught artist who learned by watching the famous Ngendon, the first of the modern Batuan artists, at work. He was a member of the Pita Maha group and showed his work to the European artists Bonnet and Spies for criticism. There are twenty-seven paintings by him in the Bateson-Mead Commission (H. Geertz, 1994, p. 104). He developed his style of painting independent from the influential Batuan artists of Ngendon and Mura. He was also a renowned teacher of art in Batuan, and the Batuan style today still bears the influence of Jata's works and teachings. He continued to paint well after the war, however in May 1994, he expressed a wish to give up his art due to his age (Hohn, 1997, pp. 53-58).