Lot 049
LYE YAU FATT
b. Kedah, 1950
REMEMBRANCE DATUK SYED AHMAD JAMAL, 2011
Signed (lower left); signed and dated (reverse)
Acrylic on canvas
75.3cm x 95.5cm
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Penang;
acquired directly from the artist.
ESTIMATE RM 10,000 - 12,000
PRICE REALISED RM 12,100
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Lye Yau Fatt, the drybrush watercolour poet of the back lanes in the 1980s, has gone indoors in recent years with still-life of antique Chinese furniture and artefact objects which he blends in with a local flavour. He has also switched from watercolours to acrylic and from paper to canvas. In recent works, he pays tribute to two great artists - Ibrahim Hussein (1936-2009) and Syed Ahmad Jamal (1929-2011). He uses their most recent books; in Syed Ahmad Jamal’s case his major 616-page book from the exhibition, Syed Ahmad Jamal: ARTIST, with his portrait as a virtual tombstone. The white flowers from two stalks symbolises death as well as purity.
Born in Kedah, he received awards at Open Art Sculpture Award, PNB Watercolour Landscape Award and the Malaysian Watercolour Society Award. Yau Fatt has held a few solo exhibitions and numerous local and international group exhibitions since 1979.
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