Anak Agung Gde Sobrat Lot n° 35

Baris dancer. 1972 Acrylic on canvas, in carved frame. Signed and dated in black lower right: A. A. Gde Sobrat 1972. framed. Born in 1912 to an aristocratic family in Padangtegal, Bali, Indonesia, Anak Agung Gde Sobrat is considered one of Indonesia's most prominent painters. As early as the 1920s, Sobrat came into contact with European canvas painting through artists such as the German Walter Spies and the Dutchman Rudolf Bonnet. Sobrat drew his motifs from his childhood, when he attended shadow plays and ritual dances. One such dance is the Baris dance depicted in the present painting, in which the dancer expresses the feelings and virility of the warrior before battle. Sobrat depicts the young dancer in full motion in bright colors. He depicts his opulent clothing, including the drapery (awiran), the surrounding collar (badong) and the elaborate headdress, as meticulously and colorfully as the nocturnal scenery that surrounds the dancer and in which he almost seems to disappear. 100 x 91.3 cm Provenance From a Munich estate, acquired directly from the artist in the 1970s