Larasati Auctioneers’ Traditional, Modern and Contemporary Art Bali sale in Ubud on Dec. 5 will return the spotlight to the renowned artists village. In the past, artists from the Ubud region gave birth to exciting new genres that have captured the hearts of people around the world.

From 3 p.m. on Saturday, 40 works in a range of styles by Balinese, Indonesian and international artists will go under the hammer. The auction will be conducted live in the saleroom at Larasati Bali Art Space at Tebesaya Gallery, Ubud.

The sale offers opportunities for the connoisseurs of Balinese painting, along with intermediate and new buyers into the market. The art styles include sketches in ink, pencil and mixed media on paper, woodcut prints on paper, hand-colored linocuts on paper, along with works in gouache, mixed media, acrylic and oil paint pictures on canvas. Works by some foreign artists include those from Australian Donald Friend (1915-1989), Dutchmen Auke Sonnega (1910-1963) and Han Snel (1925-1998) and the flamboyant Spanish-Filipino Antonio Blanco (1912-1999).