he was an indonesian painter who spent most of his life in france.
i fell in love with his paintings when i first saw them at toeti heraty museum in jakarta a few months ago.
the museum has over 50 paintings by salim, but since it's a small museum, they don't have much space to display the paintings in a proper way – they put them all up in one room, so the walls are covered with paintings from top to bottom, with no space for artwork labels. and some of the paintings are not on eye-level, so you can't really enjoy the details.
there's not much stuff about him online, though. and no pictures of his paintings. i took this pic, it's my fave piece (but forgot what it's called, sorry). iphone camera doesn't do it any justice, but it's beautifully somber. all of his paintings are gloomy, but i love his style.
