Palm Wine Drinker — recto

Image: The Kerton estate (kertonart.com)

Palm Wine Drinker

Bandung, 1977

Catalogue no.
SK-P0056
Classification
Painting
Place and date
Bandung, 1977 (as captioned by the estate)
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
128 × 150 cm (as captioned)
Location
Not recorded

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

  1. Listed in the estate’s online gallery (kertonart.com, “ON DISPLAY”, retrieved 7 July 2026); ownership to be confirmed with the estate.
  2. Appeared at auction in 2022: see the object history.

Notes & sources

Estate caption (kertonart.com gallery): “Bandung, 1977 / Oil on canvas / 128 cm x 150 cm”. Dimensions follow the caption’s order; height and width are unconfirmed.

Object history

1 auction appearance · outcomes only — this catalogue records no prices

  1. 27 May 2022AuctionSold

    Christie's, Hong Kong — 20th Century Art Day Sale (19899), lot 367

    Catalogued as “Lahang (Palm Wine)”, 1977, oil on canvas, 124.5 x 148 cm. (49 x 58 1/4 in.)

    Provenance: Private Collection, Asia; Exhibited: Jakarta, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Nationalism and Its Transformations, Nov-Dec 1996; Literature: Nationalism and Its Transformations (exh. cat., Jakarta, 1996), plate 30, p. 96

    Christie's (lot page) ↗

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.

“Palm Wine Drinker” (1977), cat. no. SK-P0056, in Sudjana Kerton: Digital Catalogue Raisonné, https://sudjana-kerton-catalogue.pages.dev/works/SK-P0056. Entry revised 1 October 2026. Living document; subject to revision.