028
b. Kelantan, 1934 - d. 2018
Khalil Ibrahim
Beach Vista
1990
signed ‘Khalil Ibrahim 90’ bottom right
watercolour on paper
57 x 75.5cm
Provenance
Private collection, Penang.
Estimate
RM 8,000 – 9,000
Price Realised
RM 11,000
A beach scene, most probably a composite image, with a menacing sky just by implications of colours shows an impending storm, if not already but even that has its own beauty. Despite the apparent calm of the waters, the sampans are left idle on the right, as it may be dangerous to go out to sea. A cluster of rocks, off centre, in the foreground acts as a patterning element and to create an interest from the dull sandy beach with the distant mountains afar standing like guardians.