This piece is accompanied by a certificate issued by West Gallery confirming the authenticity of this lot

Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

Despite being primarily known as a painter of genre scenes, Malang would flex his creative muscle once in a while and compose still life, which bears unique and interesting qualities. Malang paints no specific botanical species; he projects, rather, a personally imagined flora that utilizes various parts and imagery from a variety of plants and flowers. In a sense, his still-life paintings feature a transcendental subject that attempts to grasp a pure and ideal form of nature itself.