Lot 55 | 4 February 2024

 

 

LOT 55

CHEONG LAI TONG

B. China, 1932 – 2022

Figures and Forms, 1961

Oil on board

91.5 x 30 cm

Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur

Signed and dated “Lai Tong” on lower left

RM 8,000 – 12,000

It has been 60 years since artist Cheong Lai Tong first contributed artistically to Malaysia. What he began around the time of Malaysia’s independence has now become cherished and historic in terms of both talent and contribution. The biggest asset in all this is essentially Cheong Lai Tong himself, who, after six decades of art, is still moving forward. Still inventing, still composing. Born in China in the year 1932, he came to Malaya in 1938 with his mother and two sisters to join his father, who was running a business in Kuala Lumpur.