LOT 39
CHUAH SEOW KENG
B. Kelantan, 1945
Koi Fish, 1970’s
Batik
88 x 58 cm
Private Collection, USA
Signed “S.Keng” on lower left
RM 7,000 – 12,000
Chuah Seow Keng, the son of the well known Artist Dato’ Chuah Thean Teng ( The Father of Batik Malaysia ) was born in 1945 in Kelantan. While being recognised as an accomplished sculptor, Seow Keng is also acknowledged as a masterful batik artist. His abilities as an artist were noticed at a very early age. He was exposed to the art of batik painting by his father, the renowned artist Chuah Thean Teng, who pioneered batik painting as a fine art form. Seow Keng excels in this intricate art technique and was chosen to demonstrate his batik skills at the International Freundschaftheim in Buckeburg, Germany. During 1974 Germany’s Television Channel Zweites-Deutsches- Fernsehen-Trans-Tel made a documentary film of Seow Keng and his brothers who demonstrated the art of batik painting for German viewers.