Sakti Burman b. 1935 Village Enchante

A copy of Sakti Burman, France,1984 is included with this lot, with a signed ink and watercolour sketch on the opening page

Sakti Burman has been called an 'alchemist of dreams' and it is clear that through his canvases the viewer unwittingly enters a world of fantasy, for his paintings seem to occupy a world of their own, suspended between the spheres of myth and reality. His works are frequently autobiographical yet the manner of their presentation projects them into a fantastical kaleidoscopic world of the artist's imagination.

'Sakti Burman's spirit is one in which poetical and interior meditation harmonies of sounds and his dream and reflections mingle together and form an image full of colour, fantasy, designs, variety, fragments of stories at the same time, an invitation to silent, discreet and joyous contemplation of the realities.' (I Pel. Luc Calvero, Sakti Burman, Paris 1984)