027
b. Kedah, 1950
Lye Yau Fatt
Richness
2008
signed ‘YauFattLye’, centre bottom
drybrush watercolour on paper
56 x 76cm
Provenance
Private collection, Penang; acquired directly from artist.
Estimate
RM 9,000 – 10,000
Dirty backlanes with drab peeled walls are the happy subjects of Lye Yau Fatt, who has resumed his highly textural drybrush odes of life after a hiatus. Backlanes can be of stark beauty, like this one showing a golden pumpkin, a pot of Chinese flower and a jar – all for good fortune, despite the rusty zinc doorway shade.
