In Still Life – Rambutans, Tay Bak Koi’s mastery of texture and composition is on full display. The vibrant, spiky rambutans are rendered in intricate detail, their bright colours creating a striking contrast against a softly blended background. This painting transforms a simple, everyday subject into an exquisite study of form and beauty, highlighting Tay’s skill in elevating the ordinary into something extraordinary.

Dimensions 885 × 470 mm
Year 1990s
Medium watercolour and gouche on rice paper
Categories Collectors' Market, Paintings

Rambutans

Artist

Dimensions 885 × 470 mm
Year 1990s
Medium watercolour and gouche on rice paper

$25,000.00

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In Still Life – Rambutans, Tay Bak Koi’s mastery of texture and composition is on full display. The vibrant, spiky rambutans are rendered in intricate detail, their bright colours creating a striking contrast against a softly blended background. This painting transforms a simple, everyday subject into an exquisite study of form and beauty, highlighting Tay’s skill in elevating the ordinary into something extraordinary.

Dimensions 885 × 470 mm
Year 1990s
Medium watercolour and gouche on rice paper
Categories Collectors' Market, Paintings
Tay Bak Koi
Tay Bak Koi

Singapore

Tay Bak Koi is a second-generation artist known for his oil and watercolour portrayals of local scenes. His style combined realism and fantasy, a product of the Nanyang style of blending modernist and Chinese painting. Tay studied at NAFA from 1957 to 1960 under the tutelage of pioneer artists including Georgette Chen and Cheong Soo Pieng. Encouraged by his teachers to venture boldly beyond what was conventional, it was the spirit of experimentation that fuelled and shaped Tay’s artistic practice and his fame as a painter. Tay had held at least 14 solo shows, numerous group exhibitions locally and commissioned works by the Singapore government and corporations in his lifetime. He had exhibited in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Middle East, Europe and the United States of America. These…