Lempad of Bali: The Illuminating Line - Limited Edition of 50 copies

This special, limited, author-signed and numbered book, is a richly illustrated hommage to one of Bali’s legendary artist, I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, who has been rightly called the father of the Balinese Pita Maha group of artists. This sumptuous coffee-table book introduces Lempad's oeuvre in its full and complete glory. With some 600 illustrations, this massive volume functions as a catalogue raisonné dedicated to the life and artworks of this seminal artist. The text is authored by a team of five respected experts including John Darling, the director of the acclaimed film on Lempad of the same name, Hedi Hinzler, senior professor and Bali expert at Leiden University, Kaja McGowan, the curator of the Clair Holt collection and professor at Cornell University, Adrian Vicker, professor at Sydney University, Soemantri Widagdo, curator of the Museum Puri Lukisan, and Bruce W. Carpenter, Indonesian art expert. Other institutions participating in this book include the Library of Congress, the American Museum of Natural History, the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Leiden Ethnographic Museum, Delft Nusantara Museum, Vienna Ethnographic Museum, and the Gallery of New South Wales.

Hardcover with leather slipcase decorated with hand painted gold leaf

Book condition: Near Fine. Author’s signature and inscription to half title-page. Minor and soft crease to first few pages. Internally very clean. Numbered 35 of 50 copies

Slipcase condition: Very Good. Leather has a few small and light marks

Authors:  Bruce Carpenter, John Darling, Hedi Hinzler, Kaja McGowan, Adrian Vickers, Soemantri Widagdo

Dimensions: 30 x 38 cm

Print length: 424 Pages

Language: English

Publication date: 2014

Publisher: Editions Didier Millet, Museum Puri Lukisan

ISBN: ‎9789814385978