Sidharta FIne Art Auction 10 December 2017: Megha, a young woman from Bangalore (lot #036)

Sidharta FIne Art Auction 10 December 2017

Lot 036

Megha, a young woman from Bangalore (lot #036)

Lot #036 in this auction features Edhi Sunarso’s painting of Megha, a young woman from Bangalore. It was painted while he continued his studies at the Kelabhawa Visva Bharati University Santiniketan pada from 1956 to 1957, after graduating from Yogyakarta’s Indonesian Fine Art Academy (ASRI, now ISI).

During that time, he signed his works “Eddy Sunarso”, instead of “Edhi Sunarso”, which started to use later.

Some photographs from the artist’s archives show that Edhi Sunarso seemed to have also worked on a sculpture of a woman when he was in India, and it is very likely that it also depicts Megha, young woman from Bangalore.

This portrait of Megha seems to be part of a significant point in the sculptor's artistic development.   

Archive source:

• Mikke Susanto (ed.), Edhi Sunarso, Seniman Pejuang (Yogyakarta: PT. Hasta Kreatifa Manungga, 2010)

• Indonesian Visual Art Archives, Yogyakarta.

Foto Dokumentasi Kekaryaan Edhi Sunarso 1956 - 1962,

http://archive.ivaa-online.org/khazanahs/detail/717