I Ketut Sudila (1974)

Masks / Topeng-topeng

signed and annotated 'I Kt Sudila' / -Bali-' (lower right)

watercolour/tempera on paper, 49,5x69 cm

Provenance: -Collection Dr Hedi Hinzler, Leiden, the Netherlands.

I Ketut Sudila, born in Klungkung, is a Batuan style painter. He was a student of Wayan Bendi. The painting depicts 22 dance masks, some en face, others in profile. Dominant in the centre: below the mask of the rangda, and above that of the barong.