Lot 063
Sharifah Fatimah Syed Zubir, Dato’
b. Kedah, 1948
Untitled, 2010s
mixed media on paper
38 x 28cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Selangor
ESTIMATE RM 6,000 – 10,000
PRICE REALISED RM 6,720.00
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Light mauve tones suffuse this composition, with the main blob off-central in adamantine tactility reminiscent of the artist Dato’ Sharifah Fatimah Zubir’s Touch The Earth modelling-paste / acrylic works. The rougher textured pinches and brown hues of eucalyptus barks with the tawny brown are not too far off from the central slab. The general aura is one that is cool, collected and calm. A union between Nature and something man-made in more ways than one. Dato’ Sharifah first chanced on using eucalyptus barks in her works during a visit to Guangzhou, China, in 2014. Her eucalyptus oeuvre culminated in the Song Of Eucalyptus solo at the Segaris Art Center in Publika, Kuala Lumpur, in September 2017.
Dato’ Sharifah Fatimah Zubir comes from the pioneering batch of fine art students from the Mara Institute of Technology (now a university), graduating in 1971. Then came her BFA at Reading University, England (1973-1976), and MFA at Pratt Institute, New York (1976-1978), under the JDR III Fund fellowship. She won the Minor Award in the Malaysian Landscape competition in 1972 and the Young Contemporary Artists (Bakat Muda Sezaman) in 1981. In 1979, she captured the coveted Major Award in the Salon Malaysia. In 2003, she won 3rd Prize in the Islamic World Painting Biennial in Teheran, Iran. She has never looked back since her first solo at the Alpha Gallery in Singapore in 1972. For her tremendous contributions, she was conferred a Datoship by the Sultan of Kedah in 2006. |
