'LION' BY SOPHANNARITH (BORN 1960) Sophannarith Thou, one of Cambodia's most prestigious artists; born in 1960 and student from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. In 2000 he was acknowledged as an "Honorable Painter" by the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Oil on canvas, mounted on a stretcher and framed. Painted with a lion head, an important animal in Cambodian mythology. The lower left signed Sophannarith. Publication: This painting will be published in the second edition of the book "From the collection of Dr. Zelnik, SOPHANNARITH, Icon of the Contemporary Cambodian Painting". Condition: Very good condition. Provenance: The collection of The Zelnik Istvan Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. Istvan Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe. Dimensions: 50 x 40 cm the painting, 63 x 53 cm the frame