Asian Art - 14th November 2017
Lot 69
A CHINESE PAINTING ON PAPER BY CHEONG SOO PIENG (1917-1983) DATED 1960 Depicting a waterside...
Estimate £10,000 - £20,000 | Hammer £10000
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A CHINESE PAINTING ON PAPER BY CHEONG SOO PIENG (1917-1983)
DATED 1960
Depicting a waterside village in ink and colour, signed and with a red seal, mounted on silk, framed and glazed, 43.5cm x 94.5cm.
Cheong Soo Pieng was a Chinese artist and a graduate of the Xinghua Academy of Fine Arts in Shanghai. Shortly after the Second World War he moved to Singapore, where he spent the rest of his life working and lecturing at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.