This is the first definitive and comprehensive study of Lempad’s life and work by six leading scholars of Bali’s art and culture. The book includes over 500 reproductions of Lempad’s drawings from museums and private collections in Asia, Europe, and the United States. At 424 pages the limited edition, large-format book is a groundbreaking work of discovery. Relatively few of the total of Lempad’s drawings have been published and most of the early originals that survive have not been seen publicly since the 1930s when they left Bali to European and American collections. Soemantri Widagdo, chief curator of the museum, principal organizer of the exhibition, and a co-author of Lempad of Bali, said, “We knew well before 2006, the museum’s 50th anniversary year, that we must do the Lempad book and exhibition. But we also knew it would require years of research to find many of the works that left Bali 75 to 80 years ago in the years before the start of World War II.