On offer are a pair of small miniatures by Datuk Ibrahim Hussein. In these works, Datuk Ib's attention to detail is conveyed through the lyrical shapes, merged with a network of lines in the background carefully synthesized to form a balanced whole. Within the concentration of nebulous floating structures, dynamic shades of pure colour were integrated to create a sense of depth. Without doubt, Datuk Ibrahim Hussein is one of the most extraordinarily gifted artists of Malaysia, world-class. Shown with the century's greatest artists, Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in a tripartite best-of-the-world representing Asia-America-Europe in Kuwait in 1977; a global Crystal Award recipient given by the World Economic Forum in 1997; and the first Malaysian taking part in the Venice Biennale under the aegies of the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme in 1970. Other outstanding awards are the Order of Andres Bello of Venezuela (1993), the Order of Bernardo Higgins (Chile's highest honour to a foreigner, 1996), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988), and the XVIII Prix International D'Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo (1984). A three-time Datuk honorary, he was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986, and made the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007). He had, together with his wife Datin Sim, organised the Langkawi International Festival of Arts at his museum in Langkawi in 2000, and the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) in 1988 and Bali (Indonesia) in 1987. Ib had his art tutelage at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966). He also received a double scholarship of Fulbright and John D. Rockefeller II Fund that saw him in the United States, with two solos in New York to boot.