拍品 386
  • 386

亨德拉·古拿溫

估價
800,000 - 1,500,000 HKD
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描述

  • Hendra Gunawan
  • 與孩子的自畫像
  • 款識:畫家簽名並紀年78
  • 油彩畫布
  • 149 x 95 公分;58 1/2 x 37 1/4 英寸

來源

直接購自藝術家
盧卡斯·曼金當博士收藏

出版

約瑟夫·費舍,《現代印尼藝術:三代傳統與更替(1945-1990年)》, Panitia Pameran KIAS 與 Festival of Indonesia,雅加達,紐約,1990年,第120頁,彩圖版100

Condition

The work is in good condition overall, as is the canvas, which is clear and taut. There is light wear and handling around the edges of the painting, along with very faint craquelures on the top right corner (white paint), neck, and top left quadrant (hair). Upon close observation, two minute holes can be found on the child's leg (black paint). Examination under ultraviolet light shows minor touch-ups sprinkled on the top left quadrant (hair, eyebrow), the red hand, bottom left quadrant, bottom margin, near the green (blue paint), hand, leg (green paint) and along the bottom margin. However, this is not visible with the naked eyes. Framed.
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拍品資料及來源

Hendra Gunawan, regarded as one of the fathers of Indonesian modern art, is best known for his paintings of beautiful, lively, and sensuous Indonesians in both scenes of revolutionary battle and of everyday life. However, Hendra’s oeuvre makes a departure in style and content during his thirteen years in Kebon Waru prison for his involvement with a Communist Party-affiliated art movement. During his time in prison, Hendra lacked the inspirations of everyday life that previously surrounded him. In addition, he was separated from his wife and children. The desolation of prison confinement saturated his works with intensified emotions.

Potret Diri Dan Anak (Self-Portrait with Child), painted in the same year of his release, captures this personal, impassioned period in Hendra’s life and artistic career. The painting features Hendra’s signature techniques, such as his broad colorful brushwork, stylized exaggeration of the figure, and use of the back of his brush to incise lines in the paint. However, the painting’s subject matter, a self-portrait, is unique: a result of Hendra’s fewer sources of inspiration in prison. More than that, the present work stands apart from the few other self-portraits in which he is depicted alone in his prison cell.

Instead, Hendra sits on a carved monster head stone while his son sits on his knee, playing with his long moustache. Together, they diagonally divide the painting into two contrasting areas. Filling the top right, a magenta sky and crimson beach extends into the far distance. In the bottom left, a dark blue shadow surrounds two ominous ancient creatures—the hiding beast’s head in the corner and the carved mystical monster stone Hendra sits on. Turning away from this obscure gloom, Hendra holds his son towards and looks longingly at the open vista. In this way, the painting is split into two halves symbolic of the past and the future. Hendra is physically placed in between these halves, possibly emotionally caught in between his longing for freedom and family reunion in the future ahead and his lurking suffering in the past behind.

This rare self-portrait illustrates Hendra’s emotional state as he awaits liberation after thirteen years of incarceration. His inner thoughts, the complexities of his consciousness, are infused in this powerfully evocative painting. Hendra’s Potret Diri Dan Anak (Self-Portrait with Child) celebrates the human capacity to love through despair, to hope amidst grief.