I Ketut Gedé was a Balinese painter from the village of Singaraja,[1] active at the end of the 19th century.


Works

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He is best known for his illustrations of mythological Hindu tales[1] such as the Ramayana.[2]

He produced numerous paintings for Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk in the 1880s and 1890s, and from 1905 onwards for W. O. J. Nieuwenkamp, who considered him to be the best classical painter of his time. [1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Cooper 2003, p. 146.
  2. ^ Cooper 2003, p. 155.

See also

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Bibliography

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  • Cooper, Thomas L. (2003). "Two Paintings Attributable to I Ketut Gédé, 19th Century Master Painter of North Bali". Archipel. 65: 145–161. doi:10.3406/arch.2003.3850. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  • Hinzler, Hedwig Ingrid Rigmodis (1986). Catalogue of Balinese manuscripts in the Library of the University of Leiden and other collections in the Netherlands: Descriptions of the Balinese drawings from the Van der Tuuk Collection. Vol. 2. Brill Publishers. ISBN 9789004072343. Retrieved 16 December 2020.