LOT 77
LONG THIEN SHIH
B. Selangor, 1946
Zi Loong, 2024
Ink and gold ink on coated paper
58 x 40 cm
Private Collection, Kuala Lumpur
Signed and dated “Long Thien Shih 2024” on lower center
RM 3,500 – 7,000
Long Thien Shih studied art in Atelier 17 and Atelier de Lithographic, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux- Arts, both in Paris, under a French government scholarship. Thereafter, he moved to London to study at the Royal College of Art. He has won awards such as the First Prize in the 1961 Young Malayan Artists Competition in Kuala Lumpur and the 1992 Prints Prize in Salon Malaysia. Thien Shih is known among the contemporary artists of the early generation through his subjects and themes ranging from eroticism, environment concern, satires as well as his careful observations of local and international culture and politics. He presented a retrospective exhibition titled Man Of The Times at National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur in 2014. In 2018, he participated in a group exhibition titled The Art Of Printmaking: Lasting Impressions, which was held at Bank Negara Malaysia Museum and Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur. The artist’s proclivity for illustrating scenes of yesteryear is endearing and evokes a flood of memories, evident in Long’s pieces. His landscapes boasts explorations of colours, contours, crevices and shapes, and translates his adoration for scenes onto canvas.