018
b. Singapore, 1941
Jolly Koh
Palm Trees
1995
signed ‘Jolly Koh 95’ bottom right
oil on canvas
122 x 52cm
Provenance
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur.
Estimate
RM 9,000 – 12,000
Price Realised
RM 14,000
PUBLICATIONS
Artistic Imperatives (Selected Writings and Paintings) by Dr. Jolly Koh (Maya Press, 2004)
Jolly Koh (Maya Press, 2008)
Palm Trees, with the predominant yellow and green of tropical vegetation, is multi-referential for all its inherent beauty - the totemistic thrust of the tree on the right, with its ramrod straight trajectory and its unfurling palm fronds on top with a suggestive cluster of coconuts. Painted back in his Adelaide base then, it also represents a surge of nostalgia at a time when he was making more forays back to Malaysia.
