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The painting is undated like most of Khaw Sia’s paintings, although record shows that in his first solo of watercolours in Penang in 1955, there were paintings of landscapes and Balinese women. In this painting, the woman adjusting her head-scarf is depicted in casual and plain clothes. Until the 1930s, most Balinese women moved around topless with only a sarung to cover the lower half of their bodies.