This oil painting depicts the Singapore River in Koeh Sia Yong’s signature style of realism. One of his core subject matters, this
painting is no exception as the familiar silhouettes of bumboats glide down the centre of the river, with many more boats docked on the riverbanks anking them. In contrast to the vibrant colours that populate Koeh’s landscape paintings, this uses a more muted colour palette of browns, greens,
and yellows. Reminiscent of the silt-lled Singapore River pre-cleanup, it is a jarringly unfamiliar sight compared to the cleaner river waters of the present.

Dimensions 700 × 600 mm
Year 2023
Medium Oil on Canvas
Categories Collectors' Market

Singapore River II

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Dimensions 700 × 600 mm
Year 2023
Medium Oil on Canvas

$20,000.00

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This oil painting depicts the Singapore River in Koeh Sia Yong’s signature style of realism. One of his core subject matters, this
painting is no exception as the familiar silhouettes of bumboats glide down the centre of the river, with many more boats docked on the riverbanks anking them. In contrast to the vibrant colours that populate Koeh’s landscape paintings, this uses a more muted colour palette of browns, greens,
and yellows. Reminiscent of the silt-lled Singapore River pre-cleanup, it is a jarringly unfamiliar sight compared to the cleaner river waters of the present.

Dimensions 700 × 600 mm
Year 2023
Medium Oil on Canvas
Categories Collectors' Market
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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…