TAY BAK KOI (SINGAPORE, 1939-2005)

SINGAPORE RIVER

A Singaporean painting, gouache on paper, signed Bak Koi, framed and glazed, 69cm x 89cm.

Provenance: from a private collection, Hampshire.

Tay Bak Koi is one of Singapore's most renowned second generation artists. He studied at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1950s under the guidance of pioneer artist Cheong Soo Pieng (1917-1983), training in the traditions of both Western and Eastern painting. Tay is best known for his romantic representations of fishing scenes, urban landscapes and stylised depictions of water buffalo and his work is considered to have made a notable impact upon the modernist oeuvre in Southeast Asia.