Peter Harris

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b. England, 1923 - d. 2009
Peter Harris
Malaysian Lady
1959
signed (bottom left)
pastel on paper
37 x 24cm
Provenance
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur.
Estimate
RM 1,500 – 3,000
Price Realised
RM 3,300

LITERATURE
Peter Harris - Founder of Wednesday Art Group (The Art Gallery, Penang, 2009)
Peter Harris Memorial Exhibition (Art Salon@SENI and The Art Gallery, Penang, 2001)

Peter Harris helped set up the foundation of art education in the then Malaya where he was the art superintendent from 1951-60 but he was bet-ter known for his founding of the Wednesday Art Group, a motley group of aspiring artists not bound by academic strictures, in 1952.

Malaysian Lady comes from an abundant cachet of drawings by Peter Harris, which were his per-sonal records of his travels from Ireland to India and across South East Asia. His pastel portraits of common people were mostly about ordinary people in the peninsular, and there is no telling for sure the race, age or occupation of this woman.