Known as ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’, Dato' Mohd Hoessein Enas was a masterful portrait painter who not only portrayed the beautiful faces of the people but also captured their soul and emotion. Illustrated here is a portrait of a Malay man, distinguished by his handsome features, dressed in a modern, casual attire that is still fashionable. In an interview with Ooi Kok Chuen (New Straits Times), Hoessein had intoned: “One should look into a subject rather than at it. I have always been interested in people – people as human beings.” Pioneer artist Dato' Hoessein Enas was accorded a Retrospective by the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, in 1966, 10 years after being granted Malaysian citizenship. The Sultan of Selangor made him a royal painter in May 1990 and conferred the Dato’ title on him in March 1991. He is best known for his 56 commissioned paintings in the Shell collection called The Malaysians, done in 1956, the same year he founded the Angkatan Pelukis Semenanjung (later SeMalaysia), based on a similar society he helped form in Medan, Indonesia. His awards include the Unesco fellowships (1960), the United States fellowship (1969), an Asian Foundation grant (1960) and the Colombo Plan (twice in 1968 and 1976).