Abdul Aziz: The Artist and His Art is a joyful book about a man in touch with his creativity and with the dance of life that surround him. The readers and viewers of this terrific book are the very fortunate recipients of a legacy given to us by a gentle man, greatly beloved, who lived his destiny and left us all a little richer for it.

Mary Northmore-Aziz, his widow, has written, in Abdul Aziz: The Aziz and His Art, a loving celebration of her husband’s life and art. Her book, lavishly illustrated withAziz’s gorgeous paintings, is a testament to his life’s work and to Ms. Northmore’s dedication to her husband’s memory and the art he created throughout his long and productive career.

The artist who created the “Mona Lisa” of Bali was born into Javanese nobility, became an Indonesian revolutionary before winning a scholarship to study art in Rome. On his return he settled in Bali where he rapidly became famous not only for his art but also his music. In 1989 he married the author, an English woman, now an Indonesian citizen, with whom he shared is last years.