Lot 379
  • 379

Cheong Soo Pieng

Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 HKD
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Description

  • Cheong Soo Pieng
  • Abstract
  • Signed and dated 59
  • Oil on canvas

Provenance

Sotheby's Singapore, 12 October 2003, Lot 69
Property from the collection of the late Professor Arthur Lim
Gifted from the above to the present owner
Private Collection, Singapore

Condition

This work is in very good overall condition as viewed. There is very fine, hairline craquelure visible at areas of thick impasto, consistent with the age of the work. Examination under ultraviolet light reveals areas of restoration at the surface of the canvas and at edges and corners of the work. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

 “In my paintings, colour in the subject is the main theme I always work on the main subject first and then put in the foreground and background, the colours in which are of secondary importance. It is creation of harmony of colours and variations in tones which are my main objects in painting. I paint when I am in mood, but I would stay at one subject for days, if necessary, to complete the expression of the idea in my mind. Colours I particularly like are Crimson Lake and Black”.

- Yeo Wei Wei, Cheong Soo Pieng: Visions of South East Asia, The National Art Gallery, Singapore, 2012, pg.178.