Chang Fee Ming

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b. Terengganu, 1959
Chang Fee Ming
Rezeki
1996
signed ‘F.M.CHANG’ with seal (top left)
watercolour on paper
56 x 76cm
Provenance
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur; acquired through GaleriCitra, Kuala Lumpur.
Estimate
RM 60,000 – 80,000
Price Realised
RM 132,000

EXHIBITED
Kuala Lumpur, GaleriCitra, Portraits of Terengganu, Watercolour Paintings by Chang Fee Ming, July 2-16, 1997.

LITERATURE
Christine Rohani Longuet and Chang Fee Ming, The Visible Trail of Chang Fee Ming, Teratai Arts and Crafts, Terengganu, 2000, illustrated p. 31.

Rezeki is God’s blessings of livelihood and economic sustenance but one that has to be worked for, in order to enjoy not only the requisites of life but also material comforts. The scene depicting street trading of chillies and bananas is enriched by the pungent colours of the batik sarung worn by the seated vendor, who is obviously doing fairly well as suggested by the gold bracelets on her left wrist and the coins in the plastic bag beside her, but it is still a tough life. Fee Ming is back in his element when he revisited Terengganu’s rural life in between trips to Bali and elsewhere.