With over 2,500 years of history, Shaoxing is one of the oldest cities in China. It has long been a center of culture, and home to countless
literati, scholars, and social activists. To use Ming (1368 – 1644) scholar Yuan Hongdao’s (袁宏道) words, “there are more celebrities in
Shaoxing than sh in water.” For romantics, Shaoxing represents the lost land “South of the Yangtze River,” or Jiangnan (江南). In a literary sense, Jiangnan is an imagined world that exists in Chinese poetry, always associated with apricot blossoms, spring rain, stone bridges, and waterways. Shaoxing is a city that allows the idea of Jiangnan to run wild in people’s imaginations with ancient bridges, black-canopy boats, and fragrant yellow wine.

Dimensions 500 × 600 mm
Year 1990s
Medium Oil on Canvas
Categories Collectors' Market, Paintings

Shaoxing Water Village, China (KSY)

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Dimensions 500 × 600 mm
Year 1990s
Medium Oil on Canvas

$28,000.00

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With over 2,500 years of history, Shaoxing is one of the oldest cities in China. It has long been a center of culture, and home to countless
literati, scholars, and social activists. To use Ming (1368 – 1644) scholar Yuan Hongdao’s (袁宏道) words, “there are more celebrities in
Shaoxing than sh in water.” For romantics, Shaoxing represents the lost land “South of the Yangtze River,” or Jiangnan (江南). In a literary sense, Jiangnan is an imagined world that exists in Chinese poetry, always associated with apricot blossoms, spring rain, stone bridges, and waterways. Shaoxing is a city that allows the idea of Jiangnan to run wild in people’s imaginations with ancient bridges, black-canopy boats, and fragrant yellow wine.

Dimensions 500 × 600 mm
Year 1990s
Medium Oil on Canvas
Categories Collectors' Market, Paintings
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An influential figure in shaping art in Singapore, Koeh Sia Yong was born in 1938 and studied Western Painting at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1958. During his time at NAFA, he joined the now defunct Equator Art Society, a group founded by artist Lim Yew Kuan that promoted social realism, drawing attention to the working class through their art. Koeh was a key member of the society and played an active role in furthering their collective ambition up till the society was dissolved in 1972. Koeh then went on to be an art editor for the art magazine under Sin Chew Jit Poh, and later in the 1980s, a graphic designer and political cartoonist for the Nanyang Business Newspaper. After over two decades in the advertising…