Lee Long Looi

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b. Kedah, 1942
Lee Long Looi
Company 4
1984
signed ‘1984 Long Looi Lee’ centre right with seal
mixed media on paper
57 x 38cm
Provenance
Private collection, Penang; acquired directly from artist.
Estimate
RM 8,000 – 10,000
Price Realised
RM 8,800

ILLUSTRATED
Lee Loong Looi Retrospective 1997, The Art Gallery, Penang, p. 48

LITERATURE
Lee Long Looi Retrospective, 1997, The Art Gallery, Penang
Voices of my art spirit – The Art of Lee Long Looi, 2010, The Art Gallery, Penang

This is an unusual full-bodied depiction of two female friends in contrasting white and black dresses, the latter being more dominant with her headdress pattern “flowing” with the drape at the bottom. Here, the emphasis is on the postures and the intimacy of the Oriental women with the fan and headgear rather than in the artist’s usual depictions of heads with details of the dark gold-tinged rouged faces. Lee Long Looi is based in Miami and New Jersey in the United States and taught US-based Eng Tay and Lye Yau Fatt during his days as art teacher at Sin Min High School and Keat Hwa High School in Kedah