Chang Fee Ming

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b. Terengganu, 1959
Chang Fee Ming
Kathmandu Market Scene
1987
signed ‘F.M.Chang’ on the left, one third from the bottom; dated ‘9.12.1987 Kathmandu, Nepal’ on reverse
watercolour on paper
32 x 23cm
Provenance
Private collection, Bangkok, Thailand.
Estimate
RM 6,000 – 12,000
Price Realised
RM 14,850

LITERATURE
The World of Chang Fee Ming (Essay: Ooi Kok Chuen, Edited by Garrett Kam, 1995)
The Visible Trail of Chang Fee Ming (Text by Christine Rohani Longuet/Chang Fee Ming, 2000)

This painting of quaint stalls in the bustling bazaar at Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal with a symbolic resting white cow statue on the lower right like a mascot, marks a frenzied period of exploring exotic themes in Fee Ming’s early itinerant travels all over Asia and they are documented in his watercolour works from 1987 to 1993.

The work marks Fee Ming’s early innocent phase of his dedicated watercolour technique, with spontaneous but dexterous depiction about the romance of places before his increasingly highly sophisticated and immaculate technique today.