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b. Penang, 1930 - d. 2010
Tan Choon Ghee
KL Railway Station
1987
signed ‘Choon Ghee 1987’ bottom left
watercolour on paper
54.5 x 37cm
Provenance
Private collection, Penang; acquired directly from artist.
Estimate
RM 7,000 – 10,000
Price Realised
RM 14,850
ILLUSTRATED
Tan Choon Ghee Retrospective (1957-1992), The Art Gallery, Penang
LITERATURE
The Art of Tan Choon Ghee (Cover essay by Ooi Kok Chuen, Georgetown Printers, 1997)
A Tribute to Tan Choon Ghee (2009). Exhibition: Art Salon@SENI, KL November 15-December 20, 2009
The Kuala Lumpur Railway Station, built in 1910, is an eclectic combination of Moorish, Mughal, Indo-Saracenic/Neo-Saracenic features. It was once a major intercity transport hub and was connected to places as far as Singapore and Thailand. The bustle shown in this work is no more as most of its operations have been decommissioned and taken over by KL Sentral in 2001. Tan Choon Ghee’s sound draughtsmanship and his usual attention to details are apparent in this painting.
