Lot 056
Sharifah Fatimah Syed Zubir, Dato’
b. Kedah, 1948
Standing Forms, 1996
signed and dated on the reverse
acrylic on canvas
119 x 119cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Selangor
ESTIMATE RM 55,000 – 90,000
PRICE REALISED RM 61,600.00
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A vertiginous form is suggested by the phalanx of horizontal and vertical scaffolding in various coloured shapes. A backdrop of purple with deeper hues on the left to denote distance and the twilight hours perhaps set the ruminative mood, with an overpowering serenity taking up two-thirds of the field. Geometry of clean clarity on the remaining upper space adds to the solitude of reminisces. Dato’ Sharifah Fatimah Syed Zubir had by then, in the midst of her Mindscapes oeuvre, developed a sophistication of style, forms and colours in abstraction imbued by an affinity of Nature and a deep spiritual quality.
Dato’ Sharifah Fatimah Syed Zubir is a pioneering abstract artist from the first batch of fine art students from the Mara Institute of Technology (now a university), graduating in 1971. She pursued her BFA at Reading University, England (1973-1976) and MFA at the Pratt Institute, New York (1976-1978), besides a museum management course in London in 1987. Her laurels include Minor Awards in the Malaysian Landscape (1972) and the Bakat Muda Sezaman (1981), the Major Award in Salon Malaysia (1979). In 2007, the Sultan of Kedah conferred her the Darjah Dato’ Setia DiRaja Kedah title, and in 2014 she was honoured with the Women of Excellence Award. Overseas, she won the 3rd Prize in the 2nd Biennial of Contemporary Painting of the Islamic World in Teheran, Iran, in 2003. Prices of her artworks have been soaring high recently in auction houses locally and abroad. |