Dear Art Lovers and Enthusiasts,

Welcome to the second series of our ArtFordable Auction this year. We are carrying 127 lots of artwork for you to choose. As the dry season and the mid year school holidays are coming up, more colors and hot colors are here to embrace them.

We had hand picked various collections that appeal to different preferences and needs. We feature works by a new comer, Rejo. His painting have stunning details and intriguing facial expressions. The two other features are paintings by Rosit Mulyadi and Rohadi Cumik. Rosit works with shape and form of wooden dolls, while Rohadi shows his skill on light and shadow over every day fruits as the object. Check out also Lila Bodor, an artist form Hungary. She has interestingly distorted space and time from the perspective of human’s eyes.

Apart from offering fine art through our Fine Art and Artfordable Auctions, we have also offered various collectible items including furniture, decorative items, dining/kitchen utensils, jewelry, books and prints through our Luxurious Vintage and Tempo Doeloe Auctions. We have decided to “rebrand” this auction category offering various kinds of items as “Collectibles”, as the items offered are indeed collectible items that may appeal to a diverse range of collectors, from the novice to the connoisseur. Our “Collectibles” auction we offer collections from the estate of a single collector, held at the house of the collector, or selections of items from the property of a number of collector, held at the house of one of the collectors, to provide a gilmpse of the original setting of the collections.

Wish you warm welcome to our first ArtFordable Auction in 2013. To begin our painting and sculpture series of auctions this year, we bring in some fresh paintings that have never been auctioned before.

Bali is always the sanctuary for artists to get boundless inspirations and global influences. Some artists live in Bali and get inspired and few others drop by in Bali to get some artistic inspirations and to experiment. Expect unexpected colors, shapes and forms when you hunt for artworks in Bali. Sometimes you just cannot find them anywhere, but they are hidden somewhere; only through words of mouth you they can be discovered.

We begin 2013 with a very special auction of the estate of pioneering Indonesian fashion designer Peter Sie (Bogor 1929 – Jakarta 2011). At a young age of 17, he went to The Netherlands and studied at the Vakschool Voor Kleermaker & Coupeuse in The Hague from 1947 to 1953. Upon his return to Indonesia, he immediately started his fashion business, making dresses for Chinese-Indonesian ladies who lived around the Mangga Besar area of Jakarta, where he lived at the time.

In 1959, he held a fashion show at Hotel Des Indes in Jakarta. Meant to be part of fund raising event for a charitable cause, the show was a huge success and was attended by important personalities, including Indonesia’s First Lady, Fatmawati Soekarno. Following this first show, Sie’s career blossomed.

We proudly present the second Decorous – Sidharta Contemporary Furniture Clearance Auction, to be held on Sunday, 25 November 2012, at the Kemang89 Building, Kemang, South Jakarta, at the same time marking the second year of our cooperation with the eminent furniture retail company, Decorous.

Like our auction last year, once again several world famous brands such as Vitra, Minotti, Cassina, Kartell, Magis, Lolli e Memmoli and Alias will be offered in this auction.

Dear Friends of Sidharta Auctioneer and Art Lovers,

Welcome to our special edition of ArtFordable Auction for JakFringe International Festival. It is the first JakFringe event in Indonesia and we also offer a special section of retro vintage and furniture. As many as 50 paintings by various artists, that have gained good exposure and demands from our previous auction, are participating this special auction.

We also are carrying several good selections of paintings by Yogyakarta artists: Kasih Hartono, Alamsyah Muhammad, Kotot Kusumo, and from Jakarta we have Bay Bay Janitras. From Bandung are Agoes Suryohadi and Gunawan Bagea. Artists of Bali residence are I Ketut Tenang, I Kadek Suardika, Made Gunawan, Made Suraja, Budi Siswanto, Arief R. Two Chinese paintings are included in this auction, Ying Mai Ke and Jing Chuang Long. They splash and sprinkle unique flavors, colors, themes and executions to our auction portfolio.

Welcome to the third ArtFordable Auction this year, where you have 120 artworks to choose. This time we are offering diverse selections from old artists to young artists, from Yogya artists to Balinese artists, and from Indonesia to China.

We have carefully selected the entries and from the collections somehow we rainbows of different colors, shapes, forms, shades and stories. Upon closing the entries for this auction, I received emails of paintings from China and Vietnam. Check out the Chinese painting collections: Red Shadow in Guilin, The Chinese Opera Dancer, Treasure Hunt and Dragonfly on Cherry Blossom. These come from China for this auction. Look at the details of the paintings, they are quite interesting and easy to be matched with other modern items in the house. Our collections from Vietnam are appealing too; made of Vietnam lacquer: Woman From The North Vietnam and Red Trees Old Quarter Hanoi, which need special skills and attentions to make. Vietnam paintings are also associated with impression and scenery that are rich in colors and textures.

Our auction this time starts with a section that features Balinese Art, from the works of young and con- temporary artists to traditional Balinese painting. As a main feature, we present a special collection of the works of Nadera, Ida Bagus Made, a Balinese traditional painter with a strong individual style (lots #049 – #060).

There is also a beautiful painting by Baret, I Gusti Made (lot #035), most likely painted in the period of time preceeding Indonesia’s Independence in 1945. Collections of fine Balinese sculptures, including the work of Winten, Wayan (#009-011) also appear in this section.

Many interesting works by other Indonesian artists and foreign artists depicting Indonesia can be found in this auction. Sets of paintings by Tatang Ganar (lots #146-8) and Amrus Natalsya (lots #157-9) show works expressing the artists’ wide interests and come from different periods of their artistic development. Another set of abstract paintings by Krijono (lots #112-4), show the artist’s unique interpretations of his favorite places in Bali.

Welcome to Sidharta Auctioneer ArtFordable Auction. I feel time flies so fast this year as we are already approaching middle year of 2012. The first ArtFordable Auction this year offering 70 lots flew with flying colors, and now we are carrying colorful 104 artworks that have been carefully selected over more than 500 entries for this auction.

Colors turn out to have great impact on us. The study of colors and the impacts on our every day lives have generated discussions, experiments and applications in interior design, human mood, interaction and even believed to bring fortunes.

The enthusiasm and interest of many art connoisseurs in collecting Indonesian vintage furniture and decorative items, as emphasized in the success of Sidharta Auctioneer’s Javanese Antique Furniture and Folk Art Auction in February 2011, has led us to conduct an annual auction in Bali.