Lot 010
Chang Fee Ming
b. Terengganu, 1959
Fishing Boats, 1998;
Mekong Vietnam, 2001
signed with artist’s monogram and signed ‘F.M.CHANG.’ (lower right)
watercolour on paper
12 x 20cm; 12 x 20cm (set of 2)
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur
ESTIMATE RM 13,000 – 26,000
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The artwork encapsulating a way of life along the great Mekong at its richest biodiversity in the Vietnamese delta point is well painted. In one, the hardy Vietnamese workers in the traditional Non La conical hats huddled and working in tandem, and in the other fishermen sorting out their catches onshore in a microcosm of archaic fishing. Fee Ming spent some seven years traversing land, life and communities along the Mekong, the 12th longest in the world wending across six countries, and the sequel, Mekong Exploring The Source, from Weixi, Dali and Xishuangbanna in China down to Cuu Long, or Nine Dragons Delta in Vietnam. The countries covered were China, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
The years 1984-1985 launched Chang Fee Ming as a major watercolourist when he won the coveted Asean Gold Award in the Sime Darby Art Asia competition (1985), the 1st Prize in the PNB Malaysia Art Competition (1985), and the Malaysian Watercolour Society Awards in 1984 and again in 1985. He also won the Minor Awards in the prestigious national Young Contemporaries (Bakat Muda Sezaman) in 1986 and again in 1987. Other laurels include the Awards of Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997 and the Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia (1999); Co-winner of the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (1999). He has achieved wide international acclaim since his first solo, at Galeri Citra, Kuala Lumpur, in 1987.
In 2015, Christie’s Private Selling Exhibition featured Chang Fee MIng: Weaving The World In Watercolour in Hong Kong. He was also honoured with a solo exhibition Chang Fee Ming — Terengganu: Selaut Kasih Sepantai Sayang at Bank Negara Malaysia Museum & Art Gallery in 2016. |