062
b. Kedah, 1939
Cheah Yew Saik
Glorious Morning
2007
signed ‘Yew Saik 2007’ bottom right
oil on canvas
99 x 127cm
Provenance
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur.
Estimate
RM 20,000 – 25,000
Price Realised
RM 22,000
A nostalgia piece on farmers hard at work at the crack of dawn on the ridges in a flooded rice-field in Kedah, presumably around Gurun. The work tells about a new day and hope, as well as the industry and commitment of farmers who work the soil to provide a staple source of food. At the end of it all, it is about a beautiful natural landscape and the fecund land that is Malaysia.
