016
b. Selangor, 1950
Lim Kim Hai
Summer Morning
1985
signed ‘K H Lim 85’ bottom left
watercolour on paper
48.5 x 63cm
Provenance
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur.
Estimate
RM 10,000 – 15,000
Price Realised
RM 14,300
The work was one of four pieces painted by Lim Kim Hai in 1985, when visiting the father of a former classmate in Limoges, the capital of the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France. It was an unusual watercolour piece by Kim Hai who now paints mainly in oil on canvas. It captures the sprawling countryside and dry vegetation with obvious benefits of modern amenities as shown by the telegraph poles leading to the cosy homestead. Limoges is the birthplace of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919).
