This oil painting depicts the Singapore River in Koeh Sia Yong’s signature style of realism.Koeh uses a more muted colour palette of browns, greens, and yellows. The only pop of colour is the yellow skyscraper in the background, seeming almost golden compared to the muddy waters of the river.

Dimensions 1000 × 500 mm
Year 2023
Medium Oil on Canvas
Categories Collectors' Market, Paintings

Singapore River I

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Dimensions 1000 × 500 mm
Year 2023
Medium Oil on Canvas

$68,000.00

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This oil painting depicts the Singapore River in Koeh Sia Yong’s signature style of realism.Koeh uses a more muted colour palette of browns, greens, and yellows. The only pop of colour is the yellow skyscraper in the background, seeming almost golden compared to the muddy waters of the river.

Dimensions 1000 × 500 mm
Year 2023
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…