LOT 33
LYE YAU FATT
B. Kedah, 1950
Asparagus and Tomato, 1992
Signed and stamped with artist’s seal on lower right
Inscribed “11/100 Asparagus and Tomato” in pencil on lower edge of paper
Etching
15 x 22 cm
Provenance
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
SOLD
RM 1,127.20
Taking a different turn from his usual drybrush watercolours of homely scenes featuring shophouses or backlanes, artist Lye Yau Fatt creates a simple masterpiece. Despite the simplicity of the subject matter, all the colours and shapes work harmoniously together, unified and pleasing to the eye.
The self-taught 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. It was in 1986 that Lye Yau Fatt took a printmaking workshop in the US. Known for his intricate mezzotint prints, he produced prints on his custom-made etching press.