Cheong Soo Pieng, A Family Gathering (painted in 1974), oil on canvas, 88 x 70 cm
Cheong Soo Pieng’s monumental, museum-cover piece A Family Gathering comes to the market nearly forty years after being included in his retrospective show at the National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore (11-23 November 1983), one of a series of exhibitions inaugurated in 1981 to celebrate the ‘Pioneer Artists of Singapore’. Soo Pieng was one of the first generation Nanyang Artists, described at the official opening of the retrospective in a speech by Health and Culture Secretary Wan Hussin Zoohri as “one of the core group of China-born artists who made signal contributions to the growth and development of visual art in Singapore, both as practicing artists and teachers.”
Auction: Saturday, 20 August 2022
When: 20 Aug 2022, 6pm
