LOT 61
LYE YAU FATT
B. Kedah, 1950
Two Sisters, 1980s
Mixed media on paper
75 x 55 cm
Signed “Henry Lye” on lower right
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
RM 6,000 – 12,000
Lye Yau Fatt often produced artworks that were full on the Malaysian theme and lifestyle. He was always very much influenced by his mentor, another renowned artist, Cheong Soo Pieng for his unique manner in combining colours. Using warm tones and hues, the ‘Two Sisters’ piece executed circa 1980’s depicts a story of two sisters crossing the river in the midst of nature and beauty. Lye Yau Fatt was born in Kedah in 1950 and he later went on to study 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.