Image: The Kerton estate (kertonart.com)
Akibat Pemboman di Lengkong Besar
Bandung, 1979
- Catalogue no.
- SK-P0003
- Classification
- Painting
- Place and date
- Bandung, 1979 (as captioned by the estate)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Location
- Museum MACAN, Jakarta (collection)
Basis of entryThe estate’s online gallery listing and caption (kertonart.com) and an auction catalogue entry; not yet examined in person.
Revised 1 Oct 2026
Provenance
- Listed in the estate’s online gallery (kertonart.com, “ON DISPLAY”, retrieved 7 July 2026).
- 2017Museum MACAN, Jakarta, by 2017 (Art Turns. World Turns., exhibition guide).
- Appeared at auction in 2010: see the object history.
Notes & sources
In the collection of Museum MACAN, Jakarta, where it was shown in the museum's first collection exhibition, Art Turns. World Turns. (2017–18), as Akibat Pemboman di Lengkong Besar Bandung, 1945, oil on canvas, 198 × 298 cm. The caption’s first line, “Bandung 1945”, appears to give the place and year of the event depicted. Estate caption (kertonart.com gallery): “Bandung 1945 / Bandung, 1979 / Oil on canvas”.
Object history
1 auction appearance · outcomes only — this catalogue records no prices
- 5 Apr 2010AuctionOutcome not recorded
Sotheby's, Hong Kong, lot 133
Catalogued as “Akibat Pemboman di Lengkong Besar, Bandung 1945 (After the Bombardment of Lengkong Besar, Bandung 1945)”, dated 1978, oil on canvas, 197.5 by 297 cm.
The city of the sale is inferred from the sale series. The medium is taken from an auction-records database; the lot text consulted does not state it.
- 4 November 2017 – 18 March 2018Exhibited
Museum MACAN, Jakarta — Art Turns. World Turns. Exploring the Collection of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara
Catalogued as “Akibat Pemboman di Lengkong Besar Bandung, 1945 (Aftermath of the Bombing of Lengkong Besar Bandung, 1945)”, 1979, oil on canvas, 198 x 298 cm
Shown in the museum's first public exhibition of its own collection.
Inclusion in this catalogue is a scholarly cataloguing decision. It does not constitute an authentication or a guarantee of authenticity, attribution, or provenance, and the catalogue does not provide valuations.