LOT 80
JOSEPH TAN
B. Alor Setar, 1941 – 2001
Untitled, 1969
Signed and dated “JOSEPH TAN 69” on lower right
Mixed media on paper
20 x 24.5 cm
Provenance
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
RM 4,500 – RM 9,000
Academician, administrator, activist, artist – Joseph
was trained in Australia, first at East Sydney Technical
College from 1963 to 1965 and then University of
Sydney (Faculty of Architecture) in 1962. He taught
Art at Granville Boy High School in New South Wales
in 1967. His first solo exhibition was at Samat Art
Gallery in Kuala Lumpur in 1968. He pursued his
Masters of Fine Art at the School of Institute of
Chicago from 1970 to 1972 under the Fulbright-
Hayes Scholarship. In addition, he has taught at
the Mara Institute of Technology at its Petaling
Garden campus, then Shah Alam and Dungun and
back to Shah Alam, retiring as a senior lecturer in
November 1992.