018
b. Selangor, 1963
Jalaini Abu Hassan
Menjerang Mangkuk Tembaga
2000
signed and dated ‘Jai-2000 K. Lumpur’ (bottom right)
mixed media on canvas
64 x 64cm
Provenance
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur.
Estimate
RM 16,000 – 18,000
Price Realised
RM 15,620
Copper utensils were once popular in the kitchen as plain shallow receptacles or for containing hot soup. This work is part of Jai’s foray into rediscovering traditional domestic cookware - as record of the past and for nostalgia - with his typical ambiguous outlines and staining techniques of luminosity against a dull backdrop.
