Rare Lempad Calendar Coming to Ubud’s Puri Lukisan

The Balinese Painting Facebook page today revealed that the ‘Lempad of Bali’ exhibition opening on 20 September 2014 at Ubud’s Museum Puri Lukisan will include an unusual calendar painted by Gusti Nyoman Lempad in the 1930s for Canadian composer Colin McPhee. The painting on bark cloth from Borneo (Kalimantan) is owned by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Two details of this large painting below shows the top two rows of seven in the calendar and then a close-up of the three panels in the top left section of the painting.

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