Forgotten painting unearthed at Leicestershire school sells for £25k after international bidding war
The abstract oil painting by Singaporean artist Cheong Soo Pieng was found tucked away in storage at the School
This abstract oil painting by Cheong Soo Pieng sold for a hammer price of £25,000.
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More than 100 ink works by pioneer artist Cheong Soo Pieng are on show at Artspace@Helutrans
Artcommune gallery founder Ho Sou Ping and curator Tan Yong Jun at the exhibition Tonalities: The Ink Works Of Cheong Soo Pieng (above), which features the artist s works from the early 1950s to 1983, the year he died.ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
Artcommune gallery founder Ho Sou Ping (right) and curator Tan Yong Jun (left) at the exhibition Tonalities: The Ink Works Of Cheong Soo Pieng, which features the artist s works from the early 1950s to 1983, the year he died.ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
View the first ever survey of the complete body of ink works by Cheong Soo Pieng, a key figure in the development modernism in visual arts in the Southeast Asia
Cheong Soo Pieng, Resting, c. 1978-83, Chinese ink and colour on silk, 68 x 95 cm. Private Collection. (2)
As we coop up at home in these unprecedented times, as if cowering from a pandemic that’s going from bad to worse, a little better and then bad again, are we languishing or just Resting?
The figure in this Chinese ink and color on silk, 68 x 95 cm in size and entitled Resting, by Singapore’s art master Cheong Soo Pieng, who drew it to life between 1978 and 1983, seems to tell us that we are in a period of unbecoming, the period of rest before we can, by adding just another letter into the word rest, we may at last reset.