This work comes from Datuk Ibrahim Hussein's vintage period of 1968-1970 mainly the year 1969 when he came up with iconic works such as The Sick Politician, Chairil Anwar, Garuda, Eye, Xenobiosis, Nude, Are You Alone Up There, Kabuki Actor, Tumult and Never Too Late. Besides acrylic, some have the intrusions of his printage and collage. Images of beautiful faces of Caucacian women, seemingly selected at random, pepper the work in rectangle panels evoking the psychedelic Swinging Sixties of Mary Quant with her Vidal Sassoon bob haircut and the Miniskirts with cloth covering no more than 10cm below the buttocks. Women's magazines like Vogue and Harper's Bazaar were popular in London, setting radical trends and fashion. Ib, as the artist is popularly known, also introduced text as thought guides or mere sloganeering. Prominent in the middle is the word, Love, the counterculture mantra and the extreme pacifism of the hippies movement. Other notable words are Triumph, Good and probably Gracious (with the two alphabets 'us' blocked), alongside motifs, patterns and symbols at the backdrop. It is a rare masterpiece of absolute quality. Ib still holds the record for the highest-priced painting sold at an auction, for RM 918,400 for Calama Desert (1991), sold at the Henry Butcher August 23, 2020 auction. Certainly, one of the most extraordinarily gifted and iconic of Malaysian artists, Datuk Ibrahim Hussein boasts of several international accolades, the most prestigious of which is the Crystal Award, in 1997, presented by the World Economic Forum. He was also awarded the Order of Andres Bello of Venezuela (1993), the Order of Bernardo Higgins (Chile's highest honour to a foreigner, 1996), the Japan Foundation Cultural Award (1988). A triple Datuk, he was Malaysia's Anugerah Tokoh Terbilang (2007). In 1977, he became an Asian art icon when he was stringently selected for the tripartite exhibition that also featured Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali, in Kuwait. Ib was also the first Malaysian artist to have featured in the Venice Biennale in 1970, under the American Smithsonian Institute. He was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, in 1986. With his wife Datin Sim, he organised the first, and most successful, Langkawi International Festival of Arts in 2000, after setting up his museum and foundation. The couple also organised the Club Mediterranee Asian Arts Festival in Cherating (Pahang) and Bali (Indonesia). As early as 1984, his promise was heralded with the XVIII Prix International D'Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo prize. Ib had his art tutelage at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting (1959-1963) and the Royal Academy in London (1963-1966). A double scholarship of Fulbright and John D. Rockefeller II Fund in the 1960s saw him in the United States, with two solos in New York to boot.