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Malayan Fishing Village
- loan
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Description
Cheong Soo Pieng is a painter who was born in Xiamen and trained in the Xiamen Academy and the Xinhua Academy, Shanghai. In 1946 he settled in Singapore. He travelled widely and taught in the Nanyang Academy of Art in Singapore. Most of his work is landscapes and figure subjects, although in his later years he worked also in batik and metal. He was the most talented of the Singapore artists of his generation.
Based on extract from Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › South-east Asia › Singapore (place of creation)
- Date
- 1958 - 1959
- Artist/maker
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Cheong Soo Pieng (1917 - 1983) (artist)Cheong Soo Pieng (1917 - 1983) (calligrapher)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 112.2 x 63.4 cm (height x width)
painting 93 x 44.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
- Accession no.
- LI1486.6
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Further reading
Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 162 on p. 163, illus. p. 162 p. II. 162
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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