023
b. Kedah, 1962
Zulkifli Yusoff
Untitled
1995
signed ‘Zulkifli Yusoff 95’ bottom right
charcoal on canvas
91 x 91cm
Provenance
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur.
Estimate
RM 6,000 – 8,000
Price Realised
RM 9,350
LITERATURE
South East Asian Art Today (Roeder Publications, 1992)
Powerful Dialogue: The Art of Zulkifli Yusoff (The Art Gallery, Penang, 2000)
Zulkifli Yusoff is a latter-day Daumier for his Brave New Art using stylised caricatures to comment on socio-political events of the day. He often takes recourse to traditional Malay folklore and literature as moral lessons in his works. This work, an offshoot of his highly provocative Power Series on the use and abuse of power and all the political shenanigans, is drawn from the Sejarah Melayu centering on the courtship of Puteri Gunung Ledang by Sultan Mahmud of Malacca.
