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Engagement with a Mythical Prince (Panji)
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Ida Bagus Made Djatasoera (Batuan, ca. 1910-1947)
Engagement with a Mythical Prince (Panji)
Wash technique and watercolour on paper, pencil and black ink framing lines, framed and glazed.
50 x 42 cm.
A procession of armed men leaves from a palace or temple, with a man on horse at the rear, which is the usual place for a General or King. the procession heads into a forest, where a prince, wearing the headdress of Panji from the gambuh theatre, addresses five others who kneel before him. This may be story of King Tarate Bang (Red Lotus) from the Malat, in which the hero, Panji kills Tarate Bang in his forest, before burning the forest.
Djatasoera was Bateson & Mead's favourite artist. They filmed him at work and collected nineteen of his pictures. The artist was a member of the Pita Maha artists' association.
The present lot may be compared with another exquisite picture of a temple festival by the same artist, now kept in the Leo Haks Collection (H&M 388).
Engagement with a Mythical Prince (Panji)
Wash technique and watercolour on paper, pencil and black ink framing lines, framed and glazed.
50 x 42 cm.
A procession of armed men leaves from a palace or temple, with a man on horse at the rear, which is the usual place for a General or King. the procession heads into a forest, where a prince, wearing the headdress of Panji from the gambuh theatre, addresses five others who kneel before him. This may be story of King Tarate Bang (Red Lotus) from the Malat, in which the hero, Panji kills Tarate Bang in his forest, before burning the forest.
Djatasoera was Bateson & Mead's favourite artist. They filmed him at work and collected nineteen of his pictures. The artist was a member of the Pita Maha artists' association.
The present lot may be compared with another exquisite picture of a temple festival by the same artist, now kept in the Leo Haks Collection (H&M 388).