059
b. Kedah, 1948
Sharifah Fatimah Syed Zubir, Dato’
Awakening
1999
acrylic on canvas
183 x 152.5cm
Provenance
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur.
Estimate
RM 35,000 – 50,000
Price Realised
RM 48,400
The work, commissioned for a luxurious condominium in the Kuala Lumpur Central Business District, represents a propitious turn with upward bands of yellow and green bounded by red strips in a central knot, and with quadrants of spaces with matching colours in two halves. Yellow is akin to optimism and the high notes of achievement. While the traffic lights coded colours are dominant, they are structured and complementary, with a light array of small fragments. Sharifah usually works in series at different phases of her life.