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b. 1936 - d. 2009

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        • IBRAHIM HUSSEIN, DATUK : Untitled, 1974sold
          Sep. 24, 2023

          IBRAHIM HUSSEIN, DATUK : Untitled, 1974

          Est: RM110,000 - RM150,000

          Datuk Ibrahim Hussein, or Ib, as he was more affectionately known, was born in 1936 in a village called Sungai Limau in Kedah. He studied at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, and then continued his studies in London at the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. One international critic described his abstract work as “futuristic and it is through a distinctive ordering of lines that he expresses differing complexities of form and dimensions.” Ib used a medium which he devised himself called “printage” - a mixture of printing and collage. He passed away due to a heart attack in 2009. Celebrated as one of Malaysia’s most forward-thinking artists and recognised for his work both internationally and on home ground, Ibrahim Hussein has a body of work that spans more than half a century and has left an extraordinary legacy of paintings that revolve around his perceptions of life, humanity, his country and the personalities that he met throughout the years.

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        • IBRAHIM HUSSEIN, DATUK : Just for You (Rumble Series, England), 1964sold
          Sep. 24, 2023

          IBRAHIM HUSSEIN, DATUK : Just for You (Rumble Series, England), 1964

          Est: RM30,000 - RM55,000

          Datuk Ibrahim Hussein’s artwork, “Just for You (Rumble Series, England)” created in 1964, stands as a powerful testament to his innovative artistic spirit and his ability to convey raw emotion through vibrant abstraction. Within this masterpiece, Ibrahim Hussein masterfully captures the dynamic energy and turbulence of human experience. The bold and energetic brushstrokes evoke a sense of movement and turmoil, reminiscent of the chaotic nature of existence itself. Ibrahim Hussein was born in 1936 in the village of Sungai Limau Dalam in the Yan district of Kedah. Growing up, Ibrahim was a very curious lad. He is known for his mastery in the ‘printage’ technique which was inspired by his time spent in New York. The city was dotted by ubiquitous billboards, adorned by beautiful women promoting all sorts of products which in turn, sparked the idea of using the images as a social commentary for his artworks.

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        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1980sold
          Jun. 25, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1980

          Est: MYR60,000 - MYR100,000

          This miniature and mighty abstract work by Datuk Ibrahim Hussein, created in 1980, features an explosion of confetti colours like blue, red, yellow, and white against a lilac background - the burst of colours contained within a darker purple shade framed by an orange outline. During his illustrious lifetime, Datuk Ibrahim Hussein exhibited his artworks globally, namely his first solo exhibition at John Whibley Gallery, London (1963), the second exhibition at Gallerie Internationale, New York (1965), an exhibition at Takashima Art Gallery, Tokyo (1989), an exhibition at Takashima Art Gallery, Osaka (1989), an exhibition at Museo National de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile (1991) and an exhibition at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland (1994). He was a resident artist at the University of Malaya between 1971 and 1978, when the late Royal Prof Ungku Abdul Aziz was the vice-chancellor. He was also the recipient of many high-profile international awards, namely The Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1981), Venezuela's Order of Andres Bello (1993), Chile's Order of Bernardo O. Higgins (1996) and the highly prestigious World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (1997).

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        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1968sold
          Jun. 25, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1968

          Est: MYR80,000 - MYR120,000

          Produced in 1968, this petite but filled abstract work by the late Datuk Ibrahim Hussein exemplifies the Post-war British Abstraction from his education at the Byam Shaw School of Art (1959 to 1963) and the Royal Academy of Arts in London (1963 to 1966) in the United Kingdom. Organic outlines that form the swirling structure with layers of pure colour sensation illustrate cool blue and green hues in the background with bursts of orange and pink shades in the centre. During his illustrious lifetime, Datuk Ibrahim Hussein received many high-profile international awards, namely, The Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1981), Venezuela's Order of Andres Bello (1993), Chile's Order of Bernardo O. Higgins (1996) and the highly prestigious World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (1997). He founded the Ibrahim Hussein Museum in Langkawi, launched in 2000, but it closed because of mounting high maintenance. As popularly known, Ib captured celebrity status when he was selected to exhibit with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali at the Dhalat Abdulla Al-Salam Gallery in Kuwait in 1977. He was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery Malaysia in 1986. He was educated at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting in London (1963) and the Royal Academy (1966) in London. He visited the United States on a Fulbright scholarship (1967) and the John D. Rockefeller III Fund fellowship (1967-1968).

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        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Dance Of Joy, 1985sold
          Jun. 25, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Dance Of Joy, 1985

          Est: MYR10,000 - MYR18,000

          This work with the trademark fine rhythmic parallel lines by Datuk Ibrahim Hussein was done in conjunction with the soloist performance of the Royal Danish Ballet in Malaysia in June 1985. Five figures in body hugging leotards are shown moving towards left, four with left hand raises upwards. The lines are clean and neat with certain areas revealing accentuations of darker tones. Part of their limbs are etched out against a rectangular board etched with waves of Ibrahim's inimitable lines running horizontally in a viscous flow. The work was done in offset lithograph in edition of 155, with the proceeds of sale going to the Malaysian Red Crescent Society. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein studied at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore in 1956 but did not complete it. He graduated from the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting (1959-1963), and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966). In 1970, he took part in the Venice Biennale through the Smithsonian Institute workshop and in 1977, he was featured in the eventful tripartite exhibition with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in Kuwait. He was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986. His awards include the Anugerah Tokoh Terbilang (2007), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988), the Monte Carlo 18th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (1984), the Order of Andres Bello of Venezuela (1993). He set up the Ibrahim Museum and Cultural Foundation in Langkawi in 2000 and celebrated it with the Langkawi International Festival of Arts. He also organised the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali.

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        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1985sold
          Jun. 25, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1985

          Est: MYR10,000 - MYR18,000

          The present serigraph explores the relationship between colour and movement of overlapping forms. The ribbons of lines springing from various trajectory animate the composition, suggesting rhythmic movement. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein was the first Malaysian artist featured in the Venice Biennale (Smithsonian Institute Workshop, 1970). In 1977, he exhibited alongside Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in Kuwait. He was a celebrity recipient of the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (1997). In 1986, he was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery. He celebrated the opening of his Ibrahim Hussein Museum and Cultural Foundation in Langkawi in 2000 with the Langkawi International Festival of Arts. He had also organised the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali (Indonesia). He won the Monte Carlo art prize in 1984 and was awarded Venezuela's Order of Andres Bello (1993), and Chile's Order of Bernardo O. Higgins (1996), besides the Japan Foundation Award (1988) and the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007). He studied at the Byam Shaw School (1959-1963) and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966).

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        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1973sold
          Jun. 25, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1973

          Est: MYR200,000 - MYR300,000

          On offer is a remarkable gem by internationally acclaimed Malaysian artist Datuk Ibrahim Hussein, or otherwise affectionately known as Ib. One central motif can be seen throughout Ib's impressive opus of work – the human figure. His early training in the British art schools had given him a firm foundation in drawing the human figure. Ib's figures had transformed from simplified and stylised shapes as seen in one of his earliest works Reclining Women (1957); to aerial views of semi-abstract figures entangled and rolling in fluid unending motions, suggesting scenes of struggle and tumult. Ib's pictures were inspired by events of human struggle and conflict: demonstrations at Trafalgar Square, London in 1960, the 1969 racial riot in Malaysia, and the 1982 Sabra massacre. However, he was not concerned with the depiction of specific events directly or literally, but rather to convey universal statements on humanity itself. Ib once said: "My role as an artist is to portray man's basic needs on planet Earth and humanity's universal sharing in God's little acre – the art of our time provides us ways of seeing, understanding, criticising, and appreciating the world which we live in.' But Ib's figures are not what set him apart from the rest; it is the distinctive flowing lines that have earned him such a high level of recognition. It was not until 1975, when his wife, Datin Sim, gave him a set of graphic pens that Ib's canvases were filled with sensuous lines of varying weight, direction and character. The primary element of line has taken a whole different role on the pictorial surface, liberating the preconceived notions and fulfilling the roles of the other elements of form, shape and dimension customarily used in pictorial composition. Dated 1973, this untitled piece contains Ib's hallmark syncopated rhythmic lines and a mass of human figures in movement or interacting, compacted in a placenta-like oblong membrane whose shape is dictated by the movements inside. The mesh of human forms is celebratory of life, the spirit of living and relentless struggles. Here, the lines are dynamic but rendered in broader, staccato strokes seemingly at random, to activate certain areas of the composition. It provides precious glimpses into Ib's distinctive fine line work that is set to become his inimitable trademark. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein is world-class based on three major accolades. 1) He was given the global Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum in 1997; 2) He was the first Malaysian to have taken part in the Venice Biennale under the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme in 1970; 3) He was chosen together with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in a best-of-the-world tripartite exhibition in Kuwait in 1977. Other international awards include 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). On the local front, he was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986, awarded the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007) and had been conferred the Datuk title three times. He organised the first, and most successful, Langkawi International Festival of Arts in 2000, after setting up his museum and foundation (2000) in Langkawi. With the help of his wife, Sim, he organised 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.

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        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Mindscape, 1996sold
          Jun. 25, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Mindscape, 1996

          Est: MYR200,000 - MYR300,000

          Mindscape is a popular opening gambit of several senior artists. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein here, Latiff Mohidin and Dato' Sharifah Fatimah Zubir, to name a few. Ib, as Ibrahim Hussein is more popularly known, had captivated with his ribbons of lines, mostly running parallel and curvilinear for some two decades now, with a horizontal orientation and meeting in the central region, not centrifugally, but still in rhythmic flows. What is distracting is the long sepia-tone tape-like line running down slightly slanted near the right edge, like an obstacle but not affecting the composition, and a broad but truncated 'X' in grey at the bottom, which looks pivotal. It has a blue veneer throughout. Wassily Kandinsky once intoned: "Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality." Datuk Ibrahim Hussein is world-class based on three major accolades. 1) He was given the global Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum in 1997; 2) He was the first Malaysian to have taken part in the Venice Biennale under the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme in 1970; 3) He was chosen together with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in a best-of-the-world tripartite exhibition in Kuwait in 1977. Other international awards include 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). On the local front, he was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986, awarded the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007) and had been conferred the Datuk title three times. He organised the first, and most successful, Langkawi International Festival of Arts in 2000, after setting up his museum and foundation (2000) in Langkawi. With the help of his wife, Sim, he organised 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.

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        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Sunset Garden, 1989sold
          Jun. 25, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Sunset Garden, 1989

          Est: MYR300,000 - MYR500,000

          The period 1988-1989 for Datuk Ibrahim Hussein was one flushed with things Japanese: The Japan Foundation Cultural Award and the double solo exhibitions at Takashimaya in Tokyo and Osaka. This work awash with red-orangey hues of sunset was done after this Japan escapade. Even before his visits to Japan, Ib, as the artist is more popularly known, has a vintage 1969 work, Kabuki (in the Universiti Sains Malaysia collection) and Kimono (1996). Though intrinsically Japanese, the approach and treatment are dissimilar. Presumably static, the garden in this work brims with a life of its own, with an array of miniscule lines in parallel pursuit or criss-crossing and demarcated by colour bars. If the lines coagulate into a form, the image is undiscernible. It is ostensibly landscapist, with different lifeforms perhaps: there are no visible figures here, or is there? Ib had spoken about the emotional impetus behind his works, and professed to a predilection for movement, which translates as life, whether in time or in space. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein is world-class based on three major accolades. 1) He was given the global Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum in 1997; 2) He was the first Malaysian to have taken part in the Venice Biennale under the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme in 1970; 3) He was chosen together with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in a best-of-the-world tripartite exhibition in Kuwait in 1977. Other international awards include 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). On the local front, he was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986, awarded the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007) and had been conferred the Datuk title three times. He organised the first, and most successful, Langkawi International Festival of Arts in 2000, after setting up his museum and foundation (2000) in Langkawi. With the help of his wife, Sim, he organised 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.

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        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1964sold
          Jun. 25, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1964

          Est: MYR35,000 - MYR60,000

          What is most unusual is the way Datuk Ibrahim signed the work, with just 'Ib', his sobriquet and popularly identified tag, and with a brush too. The work, believed to have been originally owned by a top-ranking British personage in Malaya but back living in Britain then, was sold by a top auction house in Hong Kong. An interesting selling point of this work would be the unusual Ib signature, as he usually signed his canvas in his name in full. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein is world-class based on three major accolades. 1) He was given the global Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum in 1997; 2) He was the first Malaysian to have taken part in the Venice Biennale under the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme in 1970; 3) He was chosen together with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in a best-of-the-world tripartite exhibition in Kuwait in 1977. Other international awards include 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). On the local front, he was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986, awarded the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007) and had been conferred the Datuk title three times. He organised the first, and most successful, Langkawi International Festival of Arts in 2000, after setting up his museum and foundation (2000) in Langkawi. With the help of his wife, Sim, he organised 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.

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        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Together, 1964sold
          Jun. 25, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Together, 1964

          Est: MYR25,000 - MYR45,000

          This work was done when he was in London just before he swung over to the United States for a few exhibitions. Like the other 1964 gouache put up in this auction, it has good provenance being originally owned by a top-ranking British personage in Malaya, and sold by a top auction house in Hong Kong. This work is signed with just, 'Ib', and also with a brush. It's pedigree jells with other 1964 works like Assembly Of Figures, Les Hommes, Firebird, Man and Zoo and Machination, all also on gouache. London art critic Charles Spencer wrote (1965) about Ib's "conscious overlapping of linear definitions of the figure to such an extent that they become blurred into bulbous almost sculptural forms, (giving) the impression not only of movements, but of power." Datuk Ibrahim Hussein is world-class based on three major accolades. 1) He was given the global Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum in 1997; 2) He was the first Malaysian to have taken part in the Venice Biennale under the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme in 1970; 3) He was chosen together with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in a best-of-the-world tripartite exhibition in Kuwait in 1977. Other international awards include 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). On the local front, he was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986, awarded the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007) and had been conferred the Datuk title three times. He organised the first, and most successful, Langkawi International Festival of Arts in 2000, after setting up his museum and foundation (2000) in Langkawi. With the help of his wife, Sim, he organised 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.

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        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1981sold
          Jun. 25, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1981

          Est: MYR10,000 - MYR18,000

          Here, the large expanse of captivating green tones is executed gracefully, what with its being symbolic of devotion and femininity. The coalescing figures are cuddled intimately together resplendent in dreamland bliss. Composed in the early 1980s, this work demonstrates Ib's sophisticated language of expression, seen in the intricate arrangement of colour and light, enriched with forms of life in living unison. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein is Malaysia's most iconic on the international art scene, having been accoladed with the hugely prestigious Crystal Award given by the World Economic Forum. He was the first Malaysian to have taken part in the Venice Biennale (under the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme) in 1970 and was featured in the tripartite world exhibition with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in Kuwait in 1977. Tutelage in Byam Shaw and the Royal Academy in London in the 1960s set him on the right track. He was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur in 1986, and founded the Ibrahim Hussein Museum and Cultural Foundation in Langkawi in 2000, marking it with the Langkawi International Festival of Arts. He had also organised two Asian Arts Festivals, at the Club Mediterranee in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali. Other awards include the Anugerah Tokoh Terbilang (2007), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988), the Monte Carlo 18th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (1984), the Order of Andres Bello of Venezuela (1993) and the Order of Bernardo Higgins of Chile (1996).

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        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Sports Series, 1986sold
          Mar. 19, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Sports Series, 1986

          Est: MYR50,000 - MYR70,000

          Few had anticipated Datuk Ibrahim Hussein's Sports Series suite of eight offset lithograph prints, but were pleasantly surprised. Using his trademark graphic pen skills, with colouration and the spools of rhythmic parallel lines, for ornamentation and symbolic strength, Ib, as the artist is popularly known, orchestrated dramatic moments in eight sports including the lesser-known Lacrosse. The other sports featured were Basketball, Golf, Cycling, Wrestling, High Jump, Hurdles, and Running (Marathon). True to the Olympic motto of Citius, Altius, Fortius (which is Latin for 'Swifter, Higher and Stronger'), Ib had created a historic tableau of sports competitiveness. Do you know that Ib loved rugby, football, hockey and cycling, before a self-inflicted accident impaired his vision and balance? He lost the sight of his right eye at the age of eight when playing darts in his kampung (Sungai Limau Dalam in Kedah). While aiming at a banana-stump target, he poked his eye with a penknife, which was open-pointed on both sides. Lacrosse is an ancient sport dating back to the 12th century, using a ball and sticks with a net at one end to capture, carry and shoot it, eventually into the opponent's goalmouth. And is this a jump ball in Basketball, as players from both sides try to gain possession of the ball? A tussle to toss the ball into the 46cm (18 inches) diameter basket is what basketball is about. (One can imagine Michael Jordan, Earvin 'Magic' Johnson and Larry Bird among the superstar players). In Cycling, two competitors are shown from the back trying to out-pedal each other. And there seems to be a pin-drop silence in Golf, with the protagonist, probably a Tiger Wood, making a crucial putt, a birdie (a stroke under par) or even an eagle, perhaps? High jump has the athlete shown (in one-frame sequence to simulate movement) in Fosbury Flop, the backward twisting diving style that is almost de rigueur now. The Hurdling race reveals a neck-and-neck race with the competitors clearing the hurdle at about the same time. In Running (Marathon), it seems still early stage with the rivals bunched but with strategic pacing, and conserving energy against the wind. In Wrestling, the challenger below is immobilised in a single leg takedown. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein has an impeccable international profile with the accolades of the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (1997), Venezuela's Order of Andres Bello (1993), Chile's Order of Bernardo O. Higgins (1996), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988), and the Monte Carlo Contemporary Art Award (1984). He was the first Malaysian taking part in the Venice Biennale under the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme in 1970. In 1977, he was chosen to exhibit with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in the tripartite masters exhibition in Kuwait. He was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery Malaysia in 1986. In 2007, he was awarded the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang, apart from the Datuk titles three times. His art tutelage was at the Byam Shaw School (1959-1963) and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966). He is also remembered for setting up the Ibrahim Museum and Cultural Foundation (Langkawi), now defunct, and the first Langkawi International Festival of Arts (LIFA). Ib was also the prime-mover behind the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali.

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        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1985sold
          Mar. 19, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1985

          Est: MYR8,000 - MYR12,000

          The present serigraph explores the relationship between colour and movement of overlapping forms. The ribbons of lines springing from various trajectory animate the composition, suggesting rhythmic movement. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein was the first Malaysian artist featured in the Venice Biennale (Smithsonian Institute Workshop, 1970). In 1977, he exhibited alongside Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in Kuwait. He was a celebrity recipient of the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (1997). In 1986, he was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery Malaysia. He celebrated the opening of his Ibrahim Hussein Museum and Cultural Foundation in Langkawi in 2000 with the Langkawi International Festival of Arts. He had also organised the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali (Indonesia). He won the Monte Carlo art prize in 1984 and was awarded Venezuela's Order of Andres Bello (1993), and Chile's Order of Bernardo O. Higgins (1996), besides the Japan Foundation Award (1988) and the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007). He studied at the Byam Shaw School (1959-1963) and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966).

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        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1969sold
          Mar. 19, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1969

          Est: MYR250,000 - MYR380,000

          It's fortuitous that Ibrahim Hussein, later a Datuk, was in London and New York City at a time of great socio-cultural ferment. It's a great zeitgeist with the counter-culture, anti-conformist stirrings of the Jamaican Rastafari, Pop and Beatniks of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. The Rastafari introduced the reggae sounds of the legendary Bob Marley and Marcia Griffiths. Or the CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) in London, especially Trafalgar Square. The image of a Rasta woman in an orb with the braided dreadlocks could have been appropriated from commercial posters in NYC, which he juxtaposed next to a cylindrical two-tiered with images in red on a green background in the top panel. There's something Cleopatra-ish about the female head with the heavily sickle eyebrows and enunciated eyelids, as if emerging from nowhere out of a black beyond. This rare work of absolute quality is done in 1969, which means derived from one of the most fecund and incipient periods of Datuk Ibrahim Hussein's multi-faceted artistic developments. At this time, he had developed a technique called printage which initially imprinted in works such as Why You Are The Way You Are; Adakah Seorang Diri Disana; and Tumult. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein has an impeccable international profile with the accolades of the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (1997), Venezuela's Order of Andres Bello (1993), Chile's Order of Bernardo O. Higgins (1996), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988), and the Monte Carlo Contemporary Art Award (1984). He was the first Malaysian taking part in the Venice Biennale under the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme in 1970. In 1977, he was chosen to exhibit with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in the tripartite masters exhibition in Kuwait. He was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986. In 2007, he was awarded the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang, apart from the Datuk titles three times. His art tutelage was at the Byam Shaw School (1959-1963) and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966). He is also remembered for setting up the Ibrahim Museum and Cultural Foundation (Langkawi), which ran his museum, now defunct, and the first Langkawi International Festival of Arts (LIFA). Ib, as the artist is popularly known, was also the prime-mover behind the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali.

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        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1968sold
          Mar. 19, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1968

          Est: MYR60,000 - MYR100,000

          The end-1960s/1970 period not only heralded the fledgling art career of Ibrahim Hussein but was also the most significant and powerful, with iconic works such as My Father And The Astronaut, Lebai Malang, Pak Utih, Chairil Anwar and May 13. Ib, as the artist is popularly known, was on an adrenalin high - Singapore, London and then New York. In 1967, he received a double prestigious boost, the Fulbright travelling scholarship and the John D. Rockeller III Fund Fellowship, and it resulted in a double solo exhibition in New York, at the Newsweek Gallery and the Galerie Internationale, his second there the first being in 1964 of his gouaches - all sold out! Pop Art was very prevalent then, and Ib was combining text, fragments of random readymade images and pockets of the painterly. The text, in serif fonts and universe, were cut and in reverse image and put randomly as were the images, which had nothing to do with any narrative whatsoever. One of Malaysia's most high-profiled international artists, Datuk Ibrahim Hussein was honoured with the highly prestigious World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (1997), besides Venezuela's Order of Andres Bello (1993), and Chile's Order of Bernardo O. Higgins (1996), and Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007). In 1984, he won the Monte Carlo art prize, and in 1977, he was chosen to exhibit with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in Kuwait. Ib studied at the Byam Shaw School (1959-1963) and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966) after an unfinished stint at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore (1956). He was the first Malaysian to take part in the Venice Biennale in 1977. At home, he was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986. He also set up the Ibrahim Museum and Cultural Foundation (Langkawi), and organised the Langkawi International Festival of Arts, and the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali.

          Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 2003sold
          Mar. 19, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 2003

          Est: MYR40,000 - MYR70,000

          A cartography of human forms within amoebic shapes, simulating movements through the parallel lines… a limb, a torso. Suggestions of postures and even interactions. A complex melange of physical communications, animated and truncated. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein expertly honed on his ribbons of rhythmic lines to denote forms and movements, and he could have done it blindfolded, with his painting hand moving almost spontaneously, instinctively and inexorably towards the final copulation. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein has an impeccable international profile with the accolades of the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (1997), Venezuela's Order of Andres Bello (1993), Chile's Order of Bernardo O. Higgins (1996), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988), and the Monte Carlo Contemporary Art Award (1984). He was the first Malaysian taking part in the Venice Biennale under the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme in 1970. In 1977, he was chosen to exhibit with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in the tripartite masters exhibition in Kuwait. He was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986. In 2007, he was awarded the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang, apart from the Datuk titles three times. His art tutelage was at the Byam Shaw School (1959-1963) and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966). He is also remembered for setting up the Ibrahim Museum and Cultural Foundation (Langkawi), which ran his museum, now defunct, and the first Langkawi International Festival of Arts (LIFA). Ib, as the artist is popularly known, was also the prime-mover behind the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali.

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        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1970ssold
          Mar. 19, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1970s

          Est: MYR40,000 - MYR70,000

          The coalescing forms bundled in an awkward roll-in wrestle typifies Datuk Ibrahim Hussein's celebratory rumble-tumble in the 1970s when consolidating his figure-types honed from his London studies days and the panoply of New York exhibitions. The lines, decorative and defining, started his trademark insignia when Datin Sim gave him a set of graphic pens, in 1975, when Ib, as the artist is popularly known, was resident artist, from 1971-1978, at Universiti Malaya. The London art critic Charles Spencer observed in 1965 of Ib's "conscious overlapping of linear definitions of the figure to such an extent that they become blurred into bulbous almost sculptural forms, (giving) the impression not only of movements, but of power." Datuk Ibrahim Hussein has an impeccable international profile with the accolades of the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (1997), Venezuela's Order of Andres Bello (1993), Chile's Order of Bernardo O. Higgins (1996), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988), and the Monte Carlo Contemporary Art Award (1984). He was the first Malaysian taking part in the Venice Biennale under the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme in 1970. In 1977, he was chosen to exhibit with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in the tripartite masters exhibition in Kuwait. He was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986. In 2007, he was awarded the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang, apart from the Datuk titles three times. His art tutelage was at the Byam Shaw School (1959-1963) and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966). He is also remembered for setting up the Ibrahim Museum and Cultural Foundation (Langkawi), which ran his museum, now defunct, and the first Langkawi International Festival of Arts (LIFA). Ib, as the artist is popularly known, was also the prime-mover behind the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali.

          Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1996sold
          Mar. 19, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Untitled, 1996

          Est: MYR65,000 - MYR120,000

          In 1996, the superstar artist Datuk Ibrahim Hussein was 60, and got his second of three Datukships, significantly from his home State, Kedah. He was still planning his Ibrahim Hussein Museum, on a salubrious promontory in Langkawi. He triumphantly realised his museum in the year 2000, which he brilliantly commemorated with the first Langkawi International Festival of the Arts. That year, his notable works included Kimono and Ale-Ale, with his signature dynamics and rhythmic lines that were transposed here with hints of figurative coalescence over a pastel-hued landscape-shaped cartography on strata of orangey-red (top) and grey. The central blob blended colours in a curious amalgam. What struck out were the ribbons of inimitable lines concealing the central composition as a dominant epidermy. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein has an impeccable international profile with the accolades of the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (1997), Venezuela's Order of Andres Bello (1993), Chile's Order of Bernardo O. Higgins (1996), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988), and the Monte Carlo Contemporary Art Award (1984). He was the first Malaysian taking part in the Venice Biennale under the Smithsonian Institute Workshop programme in 1970. In 1977, he was chosen to exhibit with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in the tripartite masters exhibition in Kuwait. He was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986. In 2007, he was awarded the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang, apart from the Datuk titles three times. His art tutelage was at the Byam Shaw School (1959-1963) and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966). He is also remembered for setting up the Ibrahim Museum and Cultural Foundation (Langkawi), which ran his museum, now defunct, and the first Langkawi International Festival of Arts (LIFA). Ib, as the artist is popularly known, was also the prime-mover behind the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali.

          Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Rise Above It (China Collection), 2008sold
          Mar. 19, 2023

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. 1936 - 2009) Rise Above It (China Collection), 2008

          Est: MYR220,000 - MYR360,000

          Rise Above It is believed to be the only piece from Ibrahim Hussein (better known as Ib)'s China series that was sold by the late artist (to the current owner). The China series stems from Ib's tour to Kunming, among other Asian cities, in the mid-1990s, with trips to Beijing later. In the series, Ib remixed readymade images with gestural lines and forms, and reemployed 'printage', a transfer technique he made popular during the late 1960s. It represents Ib's interpretation of the triumphs and struggles in China's history. Rise Above It depicts a group of Chinese looking up at a 'cocooned form', which represents the 'New China' - a result of recent drastic change in China. China has risen, and will continue to rise. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein was the first Malaysian artist featured in the Venice Biennale (Smithsonian Institute Workshop, 1970). In 1977, he exhibited alongside Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in Kuwait. He was a celebrity recipient of the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award (1997). In 1986, he was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery. He celebrated the opening of his Ibrahim Hussein Museum and Cultural Foundation in Langkawi in 2000 with the Langkawi International Festival of Arts. He had also organised the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali (Indonesia). He won the Monte Carlo art prize in 1984 and was awarded Venezuela's Order of Andres Bello (1993), and Chile's Order of Bernardo O. Higgins (1996), besides the Japan Foundation Award (1988) and the Anugerah Tokoh Melayu Terbilang (2007). He studied at the Byam Shaw School (1959-1963) and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966).

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        • Ibrahim Hussein (1936-2009) Untitled (Just for You)sold
          Dec. 03, 2022

          Ibrahim Hussein (1936-2009) Untitled (Just for You)

          Est: HKD60,000 - HKD100,000

          Ibrahim Hussein (1936-2009) Untitled (Just for You) 1964 signed, inscribed just for you and dated 64 gouache on paper 46.5 by 33.5 cm. 18 1/4 by 13 1/8 in.

          Bonhams
        • Ibrahim Hussein (1936-2009) Untitledsold
          Dec. 03, 2022

          Ibrahim Hussein (1936-2009) Untitled

          Est: HKD40,000 - HKD80,000

          Ibrahim Hussein (1936-2009) Untitled 1964 signed and dated 64 gouache on paper 32.5 by 24.5 cm. 12 3/4 by 9 5/8 in.

          Bonhams
        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. Kedah, 1936 - 2009) Sport Series, 1986sold
          Nov. 06, 2022

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. Kedah, 1936 - 2009) Sport Series, 1986

          Est: MYR12,000 - MYR18,000

          Datuk Ibrahim Hussein produced limited edition prints of sports such as basketball, lacrosse, golf, cycling, high jump, wrestling, hurdling and running in 1986, the year he turned fifty years old. The series was launched during his Retrospective exhibition at the National Art Gallery. Executed with his signature graceful lines, Ib crystalises the pivotal moment of victory as the athlete soars into great heights. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein studied at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore in 1956 but did not complete it. He graduated from the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting (1959-1963), and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966). In 1970, he took part in the Venice Biennale through the Smithsonian Institute workshop and in 1977, he was featured in the eventful tripartite exhibition with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in Kuwait. He was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986. His awards include the Anugerah Tokoh Terbilang (2007), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988), the Monte Carlo 18th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (1984), the Order of Andres Bello of Venezuela (1993). He set up the Ibrahim Museum and Cultural Foundation in Langkawi in 2000 and celebrated it with the Langkawi International Festival of Arts. He also organised the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali.

          Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
        • Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. Kedah, 1936 - 2009) Sport Series, 1986sold
          Nov. 06, 2022

          Ibrahim Hussein, Datuk (b. Kedah, 1936 - 2009) Sport Series, 1986

          Est: MYR12,000 - MYR18,000

          Datuk Ibrahim Hussein produced limited edition prints of sports such as basketball, lacrosse, golf, cycling, high jump, wrestling, hurdling and running in 1986, the year he turned fifty years old. The series was launched during his Retrospective exhibition at the National Art Gallery. Executed with his signature graceful lines, this work shows the fluidity of movement and speed displayed in the sport of Hurdling, whereby the contestants jump over multiple barriers in a stimulating race. Datuk Ibrahim Hussein studied at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore in 1956 but did not complete it. He graduated from the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting (1959-1963), and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966). In 1970, he took part in the Venice Biennale through the Smithsonian Institute workshop and in 1977, he was featured in the eventful tripartite exhibition with Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali in Kuwait. He was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery in 1986. His awards include the Anugerah Tokoh Terbilang (2007), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988), the Monte Carlo 18th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (1984), the Order of Andres Bello of Venezuela (1993). He set up the Ibrahim Museum and Cultural Foundation in Langkawi in 2000 and celebrated it with the Langkawi International Festival of Arts. He also organised the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali.

          Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
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