EUROPEAN ARTIST (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

Two study portraits of Mas Marco Kartodikromo (1890-1932)

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One inscribed Kartodikromo lower right

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Pencil on European paper, 32.5 x 19.6 cm

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Note:

Born into a wealthy noble family in Blora, former Dutch East Indies, Mas Marco Kartodikromo was a Javanese author and vocal critic of the Dutch colonial government. After a failed communist uprising Kartodikromo was imprisoned by the Dutch in New Guinea where he died of malaria.