The sitter is painted in the usual style of the artist which consists of a pair of black eyes with pale skin posed a little slanted to the left as the lips seem slightly parted. Her effortless beauty is further enhanced by the wavy hair that she possesses. An elegant beauty! 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.