LOT 26
LYE YAU FATT
B. Kedah, 1950
Feeding Birds, 1982
Signed on lower left
Mixed media on paper
56 x 38 cm
Provenance
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
RM 6,000 – RM 10,000
Being mentored by Cheong Soo Pieng, Lye Yau Fatt admitted to being very inspired by Cheong’s idea and compositions of art but despite all that, he often produced artworks that were full on the Malaysian theme and lifestyle.
“What attracted and inspired me the most about Cheong Soo Pieng’s techniques were the colour combination used by him and how he explained and described it through his art. He was a very good teacher and he though me a lot about art, I learned so much from him just by talking to him,” said Lye Yau Fatt. He spent a lot of time with Cheong learning the techniques of watercolour painting and other forms of painting style before Cheong died in 1983 due to heart failure.
Lye Yau Fatt was born in Kedah in 1950, he studied printmaking in New York. He held his first solo exhibition in 1979 at the Sum Art Gallery and has then gone on to win the Open Art Sculpture Award, the Malaysian Watercolour Society Award in 1987 and the PNB Watercolour Landscape Award.