Lot 22 | Auction XXXVIII

 

 

Lot 22

SEAH KIM JOO

B. Singapore, 1939

Untitled

Signed “Seah Kim Joo” on lower right
Inscribed 11/30 on lower edge of paper

Linocut on paper
Edition 11/30 

59 x 36 cm

Provenance Private Collection, Canada

RM 1,200 – RM 3,500

Seah Kim Joo’s appreciation for the simplicities of village living. In this body of work, he uses monochromes with a darker hue focused on the feminine figure, presumably a mother to the child fe aving basket, and gazing upon each other.