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Fatimah is painted in the usual style of the artist. A lady with pale skin is seen lying down resting on the blue velvety fabric against the red background. Jeihan Sukmantoro is dubbed “soul-catcher” by art-writer Ooi Kok Chuen (Interview in Bandung, published in The Sunday Star, Oct 23, 2011) for his prescience in capturing the intrinsic qualities and enigmatic aura of the portrayed, just by using black blobs or slits for the eyes. The multidisciplinary Jeihan Sukmantoro was a sculptor, ceramist, printmaker (woodcuts) and painter (acrylic, oil, watercolours, pastels) and a published poet. A rebel, he studied at the Bandung Institute of Technology (1960-1966) but did not complete it. His best known book of poetry is MATA MBeling Jeihan (2000). Besides all over Indonesia, he had solo exhibitions in Rome (Italy), Rotterdam (Netherlands), New Jersey (United States), Paris (France), Zurich (Switzerland) and Malaysia.