I Made Soekarja (Banjar Panti, Sanur, 1912-1988)
I Made Soekarja (Banjar Panti, Sanur, 1912-1988)

The Story of Rajapala

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I Made Soekarja (Banjar Panti, Sanur, 1912-1988)
The Story of Rajapala
Executed in, or before 1937
Wash technique and watercolour on paper, pencil and black ink framing lines, framed and glazed.
25 x 32.5 cm.
The artist was a member of the Pita Maha artists' association. Soekarja was the brother-in-law of Gusti Made Rundu. Bateson & Mead collected thirteen works by the artist. Thirty-eight works of his are kept in the Pusat Dokumentasi Bali, Denpasar. Also recorded as: I Sukari, I Sukario, I Sukurio, I Soekario, and I Sukaria. For other interpretations of the subject see also lots 62, 82, and 148. Inscribed with the artist's name and a sketch of a dancer on the reverse.
To be illustrated in a forthcoming book by Dr. A. Vickers: Balinese Painting; Mementoes, Diversions, Masterworks (1928-1942), (Pepin Press).

See also the List of Exhibitions in this catalogue.
Provenance
Collection Bateson & Mead, Princeton University, New Jersey (on loan), inv. no. S-958, purchased 29 March 1937.
Literature
L. Haks and G. Maris, Pre-War Balinese Modernists, Haarlem 1999, p. 91 (illustrated p. 90).

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