Le Mayeur could certainly paint (although he’d probably be arrested in today’s less enlightened Indonesia)2. Where to stay. There certainly weren’t many hotels in those days. As for the first ever tourist hotel in Bali? Well, it was built in Denpasar and somabe highly imaginative Dutch chap named it “Bali Hotel”! Even more preposterous was its location: on the site where the puputan massacre and mass suicide took place in 1906! Another hotel was built in Kintamani - the perfect location to take in the spectacular vistas around Lake Batur.
But by the 1930s, Sanur was the place to be. It attracted expats, artists with a fondness for painting nude Balinese women, writers and other luminaries, as well as its fair share of degenerates such as pedophiles and other unsavory types (much like today, really). One of the most famous painters was a Belgian chap called Le Mayeur (1880-1958). He married a Balinese dancer called Ni Pollok and for some reason or another painted her nude as often as he possibly could, with one of his paintings of her recently selling by auction at Christies for the cool sum of US$22,682.
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