Lot 064
Tajuddin Ismail, Dato’
b. Negeri Sembilan, 1949
Blue Landscape, 2003
signed and dated (lower right)
oil on canvas
152 x 138cm
PROVENANCE
Christie’s Hong Kong, Asian 20th Century Art,
31 May 2015, Lot 670
Private collection, Selangor
ESTIMATE RM 30,000 – 55,000
PRICE REALISED RM 40,320.00
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Dato’ Tajuddin’s paintings are a curious state of mind, lolling between modulated stupor and suspended wakefulness. In the pools of phlegmatic calm, there is emotion in motion.For Dato’ Tajuddin, his sense of stillness, this sense of deep open spaces represents the harmony he seeks, and oneness he achieves, with Nature and things around him, and with himself.
Dato’ Tajuddin graduated in Graphic Design at the Art Centre College of Design in Los Angeles, the United States, in 1974. He did his Post-graduate Interior Architecture at the Pratt Institute in New York in 1979-81. His accolades include the Major Award, National Drawing Competition in 1977; Minor award, National Graphic Art, National Art Gallery, 1978; Minor Award, Salon Malaysia, 1979; and Minor Award, National Design Council, 1994. He set up TJ Fine Art in 2004. After teaching at the University Mara Institute of Technology for several years, he joined Sunway University as Fine Arts Department Associate Professor and Academic Adviser. His solo exhibition, Ambiguity was organised in collaboration with Segaris Art Center and TJ Fine Art in 2018. Many of his masterpieces were exhibited at the VIP Lounge in Art Expo Malaysia 2019. |