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The present lot was painted in 1960, four years after Sakti Burman had moved to Paris and enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts. Although he faced financial hardships in his initial years, Burman's life changed dramatically through the important art and people he encountered there. During this time, he also met his future wife, Maite - an artist herself - who took him to museums and galleries and furthered his art education.... The present lot was painted in 1960, four years after Sakti Burman had moved to Paris and enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts. Although he faced financial hardships in his initial years, Burman's life changed dramatically through the important art and people he encountered there. During this time, he also met his future wife, Maite - an artist herself - who took him to museums and galleries and furthered his art education. Together, the two also travelled to Italy, where he came across the works of Renaissance artists such as Raphael, da Vinci, Titian, and Botticelli, and Spain, where he experienced the art of Francisco Goya and Diego Velazquez. These artists would come to influence his work in later years. Among the French artists, the works of Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall and Pierre Bonnard greatly inspired Burman. His landscapes from these years, such as the present lot, reflected a combination of Matisse's spontaneous brushwork, Bonnard's sensibilities for painting interiors and rooftops, and an Indian aesthetic - but in a style entirely his own. Here, Burman likely paints a view of a Spanish town during springtime, perhaps on his travels with Maite.

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