Harris Ribut Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Harris Ribut Art Value Price Guide

Dec. 05, 2021
Harris Ribut (b. Selangor, 1951) Dancers, 1998
Est: RM4,000 - RM7,000
Composed with soothing rich colours, a group of classical dancers unite and express the stories of their lives through intricate gestures, while forming beautiful movements together. Harris started being a street artist and started learning painting at the Angkatan Pelukis SeMalaysia (APS) base. He worked as a paste-up artist in a publishing house. He then joined a Bahasa Malaysia daily as a graphic artist, then art director, and was even a reporter and a sub-editor. At one time, he had a pondok base at the artist’s colony in Conlay, under the Malaysian Handicraft Centre, Kuala Lumpur. His wife, Fauziah Ismail, also paints, but of exaggeratedly thin women.
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Nov. 15, 2020
Harris Ribut (b. Selangor, 1951) Pemusik Gambus, 2013
Est: RM20,000 - RM30,000
Composed with soothing purple and orange hues, the musicians unite and express their ideas though music, while forming beautiful movements together. They indulge and immerse themselves in the joy of playing music. Each is skillful, presenting mellifluous melody and rhythms to entertain the audiences. Harris started being a street artist and started learning painting at the Angkatan Pelukis SeMalaysia (APS) base. He worked as a paste-up artist in a publishing house. He then joined a Bahasa Malaysia daily as a graphic artist, then art director, and was even a reporter and a sub-editor. At one time, he had a pondok base at the artist’s colony in Conlay, under the Malaysian Handicraft Centre, Kuala Lumpur. His wife, Fauziah Ismail, also paints, but of exaggeratedly thin women.
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Mar. 15, 2020
Harris Ribut (b. Selangor, 1951) Balik Dari Perigi, 2007
Est: RM3,000 - RM5,500
This scene shows a group of people just came back from washing their clothes at the well. Well can only be seen nowadays in rural areas. It is used to store a large amount of water that later can be shared among the community. Waters from the well are always fresh and cool especially in the morning. Thus, they look especially fresh as they probably have just taken bath too. Harris started being a street artist and started learning painting at the Angkatan Pelukis SeMalaysia (APS) base. He worked as a paste-up artist in a publishing house. He then joined a Bahasa Malaysia daily as a graphic artist, then art director, and was even a reporter and a sub-editor. At one time, he had a pondok base at the artist’s colony in Conlay, under the Malaysian Handicraft Centre, Kuala Lumpur. His wife, Fauziah Ismail, also paints, but of exaggeratedly thin women.
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Nov. 03, 2019
Harris Ribut (b. 1951) Water Sprout Scene, 2002
Est: RM3,000 - RM5,500
This scene shows the development and arrangement of curved shapes of the human body. The artist’s attempt to represent movement is visible, portraying the lady on the left with outstretched arms, with the entire community working together to share and collect water from the main source. Harris started being a street artist and started learning painting at the Angkatan Pelukis SeMalaysia (APS) base. He worked as a paste-up artist in a publishing house. He then joined a Bahasa Malaysia daily as a graphic artist, then art director, and was even a reporter and a sub- editor. At one time, he had a pondok base at the artist’s colony in Conlay, under the Malaysian Handicraft Centre, Kuala Lumpur. His wife, Fauziah Ismail, also paints, but of exaggeratedly thin women.
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Jul. 07, 2019
HARRIS RIBUT : Untitled, 1998
Est: RM2,000 - RM4,000
"Harris Ribut is best known for his oil painting of fat women swaying to the beat of their daily chores, evident in this work. He shows us the grace and beauty of heavier women as an honest paradigm of reality. His many series of these women _ doing chores, dancing, chit-chatting came from his muse, his mother. Big is not heavy, fat but not ugly, passion rather than lust said Harris - thatês how he sees them and hopes people will too."
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Jun. 30, 2019
Harris Ribut (b. 1951) Tarian Melayu, 2006
Est: RM2,500 - RM4,000
Tarian Melayu presents traditional customs and culture of the Malay people. This elegant work depicts a trio of women dressed in traditional attire, dancing gracefully in rhythm. Composed with soothing purple and orange hues, the dancers unite and express their ideas though music, while forming beautiful movements together. Harris Ribut started as a street artist and started learning painting at the AngkatanPelukis SeMalaysia (APS) base. He worked as a paste-up artist in a publishing house. He then joined a Bahasa Malaysia daily as a graphic artist, then art director, and was even a reporter and a sub-editor. At one time, he had a pondok base at the artist’s colony in Conlay, under the Malaysian Handicraft Centre, Kuala Lumpur. His wife also paints, but of exaggeratedly thin women.
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Jun. 30, 2019
Harris Ribut (b. 1951) Dancers, 2000
Est: RM2,500 - RM4,500
Harris Ribut’s subject matter can be analysed as a dichotomy. He illustrates voluptuous Malay women dressed in kebaya and sarong in the act of dancing - a seemingly innocent theme. But the modesty of the traditional attire - worn daily by elderly women in rural Malaysia - is sensualised through his depiction of rounded bosoms and derriere. Inspired by his mother, his creative approach is a celebration of maternal love and an appreciation for the beauty of plus size women. Harris Ribut began his creative journey as a street painter. He worked as a paste-up artist in publishing companies until he was appointed an art director. He also worked as a journalist and later sub-editor. He started painting professionally in the early Nineties. Harris Ribut works from a pavilion at the Kuala Lumpur Craft Centre, Jalan Conlay alongside his wife, whose style of painting is thematically similar but her subjects are of slender female figures. The centre started hosting residence artists at their artist colony as early as the 1980s. He has participated in numerous group shows. In February 2019, his work was displayed at the Painting From The Heart - Art For Good, a charity art exhibition held at Bangsar Shopping Centre’s concourse. Among his exhibitions included The Fat Lady & Elephantopedia at Gallery Hackman, Stockholm, Sweden (2005); Art For Heart at Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur (2003); Citarasa at Bank Negara Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (2000); and more.
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Mar. 24, 2019
Harris Ribut (b. 1951) Untitled, 1999
Est: RM1,300 - RM2,300
This piece depicts two women wearing gorgeous batik kebarung dancing expressively through the rhythm. The expression portrayed on the face of each dancer is strong as if they indulge deeply in the moment leaving the world behind. Although choreographically their movements are not synchronised to one another, their souls seem to connect and form beautiful movements together, dancing gracefully in nimbleness. Harris started being a street artist and started learning painting at the Angkatan Pelukis SeMalaysia (APS) base. He worked as a paste-up artist in a publishing house. He then joined a Bahasa Malaysia daily as a graphic artist, then art director, and was even a reporter and a sub- editor. At one time, he had a pondok base at the artistâs colony in Conlay, under the Malaysian Handicraft Centre, Kuala Lumpur. His wife, Fauziah Ismail, also paints, but of exaggeratedly thin women. 39 x 39cm
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Mar. 24, 2019
Harris Ribut (b. 1951) Selamat Datang, 2007
Est: RM4,500 - RM8,000
Selamat Datang is a type of welcoming dance to welcome an important guest to a new place. It is opt to make the guest feel comfortable while being on other peopleâs land or property. It is such a beautiful choreography as the dancers gracefully sprinkle flowers while they are moving to promote a friendly and warm gesture towards the guest. Though their forms are distinctly voluminous, but thereâs nimbleness and grace as these ladies do not have elephant feet. 91 x 122cm
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Oct. 28, 2018
HARRIS RIBUT (b. 1951) Untitled, 2004
Est: RM3,000 - RM5,500
Harris Ribut is known for his overly plump women doing household chores or dancing merrily, and in this piece, he depicts a group of ladies dancing gracefully. Though their forms are distinctly voluminous, but there's nimbleness and grace as these figures do not have elephant feet. It's as though they indulge deeply in the dance routine following its beat and projecting gentleness in each movements. Harris started being a street artist and started learning painting at the Angkatan Pelukis SeMalaysia (APS) base. He worked as a paste-up artist in a publishing house. He then joined Bahasa Malaysia daily as a graphic artist, then art director, and was even a reporter and a sub-editor. At one time, he had a pondok base at the artist's colony in Conlay, under the Malaysian Handicraft Centre, Kuala Lumpur. His wife, Fauziah Ismail, also paints, but of exaggeratedly thin women.
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Oct. 28, 2018
HARRIS RIBUT (b. 1951) No!, 1998
Est: RM4,000 - RM7,000
When a woman says, â€˜No!' meaning â€˜Don't', it can be construed perversely by some, especially the playful or the thick-skinned lecher, to be a â€˜Yes!' (â€˜Do', â€˜Go ahead'). So is the banter of Harris Ribut in his continuing saga of the â€˜Fat Lady'. Far from being scornful of obese women, Harris Ribut shows them as adorable, graceful and beautiful in their own ways. Inspired by his mother, he created the Fat Woman doing household chores or even dancing, her voluminous forms no hindrance to movement. Harris Ribut makes an incredible transition from being a street artist, then paste-up artist in publications, then graphic artist, then art director, reporter and sub-editor. Self-taught, he picked up the finer points from the Angkatan Pelukis SeMalaysia artists. Ribut is not a glamour name, but his real name, in his identity car. Whilst Harris has gained prominence as an artist of the Fat Lady his wife Fauziah Ismail, who is also an artist, paints the scrawny Thin Lady.
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Apr. 29, 2018
HARRIS RIBUT (b. 1951) DANCING COUPLE, 2002, Acrylic on canvas
Est: RM4,000 - RM7,000
Harris Ribut is known for his overly plump women doing household chores or dancing merrily, and in this piece, he depicts a Malay couple dancing gracefully. Though their forms are distinctly voluminous, but there’s nimbleness and grace as these figures do not have elephant feet — on the contrary, their feet are small and pointed, to the point where they resemble a ballerina’s poise, specifically the seventh position.Harris started being a street artist and started learning painting at the Angkatan Pelukis SeMalaysia (APS) base. He worked as a paste-up artist in a publishing house. He then joined a Bahasa Malaysia daily as a graphic artist, then art director, and was even a reporter and a sub- editor. At one time, he had a pondok base at the artist’s colony in Conlay, under the Malaysian Handicraft Centre, Kuala Lumpur. His wife, Fauziah Ismail, also paints, but of exaggeratedly thin women.
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Nov. 12, 2017
HARRIS RIBUT (b. 1951) TARIAN KITA, 2006, Oil on canvas
Est: RM3,000 - RM5,000
This painting depicts three women of different races (Malay, Chinese, Indian) dancing gracefully. ‘Fat’ is not ugly, ‘Fat’ is not heavy. Self-taught Harris Ribut is known for his overly plump women doing household chores or dancing merrily. When they move, it’s like loaded musical notes in motion, with its own rhythm and rhyme. And the curves are well accented. The forms are distinctly voluminous but there’s nimbleness and grace as these gargantuan women do not have elephant feet. Just like the Chinese kung fu superstar Samo Hung, who only looks obese but packs nifty punches and kicks and can outrun a lot of ‘normal’ sized people. Harris, who just decided to go into painting one day, based his ‘heroine’ through watching his mother, who is big sized, but could accomplish so many chores with ease and in good time. He himself is a ‘little’ on the plus-size.Harris started being a street artist and started learning painting at the Angkatan Pelukis SeMalaysia (APS) base. He worked as a paste-up artist in a publishing house. He then joined a Bahasa Malaysia daily as a graphic artist, then art director, and was even a reporter and a sub-editor. At one time, he had a pondok base at the artist’s colony in Conlay, under the Malaysian Handicraft Centre, Kuala Lumpur. His wife, Fauziah Ismail, also paints, but of exaggeratedly thin women.
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