IWAN TIRTA Work SIGNED MINT CONDITION VINTAGE Start Price USD 99.00 Current Price USD 99.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, July 05, 2008 End Time Monday, July 14, 2008 Location Ship Cost Only, no handling fees See more about 'IWAN TIRTA Work SIGNED MINT CONDITION VINTAGE' Description This is a vintage piece from 1976 collection, excellent condition. Hand signed, measures 36" X 35" inches, approx. one square meter. The exotic textiles of Java have intrigued the outside world for the past 150 years. Batik, the legendary fiber art of painting and dyeing fabrics using a waxing process, has been influenced by cultures as diverse as the Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. Iwan Tirta: Single Handedly he Revitalized the Indonesian Batik Industry.  A "renaissance man" by any standard, Iwan Tirtaamidjaja studied and taught law at Yale University in the late 1960's before deciding to dedicate his life to the preservation of Indonesia's ancient art tradition of batik painting. Inspired by the elegance and pageantry of the Javanese court encountered in his youth, Iwan Tirta quickly electrified the traditional craft of wax designed cloth painting by encouraging traditional motifs and boldly bringing them to the notice of an international audience.Attention from Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Architectural Digest, The New York Times and even National Geographic followed, with his striking designs in New York, London and Paris along the way. Iwan Tirta's beautiful painted cloths are equally at home in fine stores and boutiques as they are in the collections of some of the world's leading museums. Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton have worn his shirts on formal state occasions. In fact, Nelson Mandela is so enamored with batik that he thinks his Iwan Tirta shirts are de regueur - insisting on foregoing the traditional morning coat in favor of a batik shirt when he called on Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. Visit his website to see how special his work is. Emails welcome Place a Bid!