Indonesian artist S. Sudjojono’s oil painting titled “Our Soldiers Led Under Prince Diponegoro” sold for HK$58.4 million ($7.5 million), including fees, at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong today ...

Painter LaureateMarried by this time, Sudjojono was beginning to enjoy modest success both as an artist and as a communist politician. In the early 1950s, he went on a government-sponsored tour to ...

Sudjojono had observed the country’s penchant for playing with fire, taking delight in everything beyond propriety. The absurdity of the elder people in the Cap Go Meh painting is still relevant ...

Sudjojono’s Cap Go Meh painting, created in 1940 or around five years before Indonesia gained independence, is famous because it contains social criticism. It is seen by cultural observers as ...