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

Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, USA

ABOUT THE WORK

Malang’s pictorialism is as baroque as Manansala’s, differing only in that it indulges in multi-sectional and highly mannered effects.” Everything goes back to Leger. Leger worked not only on the composition but also on his solution to a complete independence of color and line: dense and emphatic black lines wind their way rhythmically over bold color zones. Somehow these things were in principle passed down from Leger to Manansala to Ang Kiukok to Malang. Malang’s art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and relationships of forms. Malang believed that abstract art was a way to get at the important reality — the ability to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may be seen.