LOT 54
KHOO SUI HOE
B. Kedah, 1939
Bridge, 1973
Oil on canvas
95.5 x 79 cm
Private Collection, Singapore
Signed and dated “Sui Hoe ‘73” on lower right
RM 38,000 – 70,000
Khoo Sui Hoe was born in 1939 in Kedah and is one of Malaysia’s foremost fine artists who graduated from the prestigious and highly reputable Nanyang Academy of Art in Singapore. He also studied in the United States where he obtained his education through the Pratt Graphic Centre in New York back in 1974. Khoo won first prize in the Oil, Malaysian Art and Craft competition in 1965, honourable mention in the Salon Malaysia Art competition in 1969, the John D. Rockefeller 3rd Fund Grant in 1974, and Certificate of Merits, Asian Art Now, Las Vegas Art Museum in 2002 and 2004. Where his works are concerned, Sui Hoe’s work is abstract and colourful and one can see that such expressions come through with many years of experience. He has had many exhibitions throughout the world and his works have travelled throughout the world, including Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta, Bandung, Bali, Taipei, Melbourne, Adelaide, Honolulu, New York, Washington D.C., Houston, and Shanghai while some have been sold off by regional and international auction houses like Christie’s and Sotheby’s.