Those who have been to Bali and immersed in their Hindu-Balinese culture would have been familiar with Rangda, the witch-widow nemesis of Barong in the Barong dance.Though the visage is grotesque with its goggle-eyes and sharp fangs, it is a mastery of craftsmanship with a perverse form of beauty. This is one of the painted manifestations by Ahmad Zakii Anwar in one of his visits to Bali. The rangda is the demon queen of the Leyaks in Bali. Another painting titled Rangda (1996), sold for a premium of RM79,200 at the Henry Butcher April 21, 2013 Auction. The Barong is portrayed as a lion with a red head, which some in modern times likened to a Pekingese dog. The dance repertoire of Barong and the Sanghyang encapsulated in the mask represents the physical and spiritual journey of Man, and is manifested as the eternal struggle between Good and Evil. Ahmad Zakii Ahmad's landmark mid-career exhibition, Disclosure, 2008 marked his meteoric turn into fulltime painting from a lucrative advertising career, and he had not looked back since his successful Smokers Series solo in 1997. Overseas solos followed, like Presence (1999) and Bones And Sinews (2011) in the United States; Kota Sunyi (Indonesia, 2007); Shadowland (Hong Kong, 2001); Tyler Print (Singapore, 2007) and Baik Art (South Korea, 2013). Zakii graduated with a Graphic Design diploma at the Mara Institute of Technology in 1977.