Image: The Kerton estate (kertonart.com)
Potato Diggers
Bandung, 1986
- Catalogue no.
- SK-P0064
- Classification
- Painting
- Place and date
- Bandung, 1986 (as captioned by the estate)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 100 × 140 cm (as captioned)
- Location
- Not recorded
Basis of entryThe estate’s online gallery listing and caption (kertonart.com) and auction catalogue entries; 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); ownership to be confirmed with the estate.
- Appeared at auction in 1997 and 2022: see the object history.
Notes & sources
Estate caption (kertonart.com gallery): “Bandung, 1986 / Oil on canvas / 100 cm x 140 cm”. Dimensions follow the caption’s order; height and width are unconfirmed.
Object history
2 auction appearances · outcomes only — this catalogue records no prices
- 30 Mar 1997AuctionSold
Christie's, Singapore — South East Asian Pictures (5830), lot 126
Catalogued as “Potato Diggers”, '86, oil on canvas, 100 x 140 cm
Literature: Kerton, My Country, Indonesia - Paintings by Sudjana Kerton (1990), p. 14, illustrated
- 28 Aug 2022AuctionSold
Sotheby's, Singapore — Modern & Contemporary Auction (SG7027), lot 50
Catalogued as “Penggali kentang (Potato diggers)”, '86, oil on canvas, 100 by 140 cm; 39 1/2 by 55 1/4 in.
Provenance: Christie's Singapore, 30 March 1997, Lot 126; Important Southeast Asian Private Collection (acquired from that sale); Exhibited: Jakarta, Nationalism and Its Transformations, 22 Nov - 13 Dec 1996 (p. 56); Beijing, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Meanders in the Tropics, 18 Feb - 18 Jul 2021; Literature: Kerton, Tanah Airku (Sanggar Luhur, 1990), p. 14, illustrated in colour
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.