One of Indonesia's most popular painters, Adam Lay, has died. He breathed his last on the fourth day of April, the 4th month, at 4:14am in 2014 in Bogor, West Java, due to complications of a heart attack.

I say 'most popular' because in the Indonesian art world, particularly in painting, the works of Adam Lay have reached a very broad base of admirers. Almost every Indonesian collector has at one time kept a painting by Adam, particularly those with