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  • Chang Fee Ming; Breeze
    Aug. 09, 2026

    Chang Fee Ming; Breeze

    Est: S$38,000 - S$58,000

    Lot: 909 - Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959, Malaysian); Breeze; executed in 1993; watercolour on paper ; 56 x 76 cm; inscribed, dated and signed on the reverse; Pick up point: Singapore; Tags: Malaysian, Malaysia, modern, painting, drawing IMPORTANT INFO Bidders need to know We encourage all buyers to check for condition reports and or other photos before bidding. The absence of a condition report does not imply that the lot is free from damage and wear. Please go through photos for more details on conditions and age; color will be different depends on your screen. All the items are sold as is and all sales are final. We encourage all bidders to review our terms and conditions before bidding. Please contact us through email info@larasati.com if you need any further information.

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  • Chang Fee Ming | Batu Rakit, Terengganu; Untitled, 1997; 1996
    Aug. 09, 2026

    Chang Fee Ming | Batu Rakit, Terengganu; Untitled, 1997; 1996

    Est: RM10,000 - RM18,000

    A master of watercolour, Chang Fee Ming is celebrated for his vivid and intricate depictions of Southeast Asian life. Through his travels across Asia, he has documented the region's diverse communities, traditions, and rituals, capturing them with remarkable sensitivity, vibrant colours, and refined detail. In five decades of a chequered career as a dedicated watercolorist, Chang Fee Ming has achieved accolades as a trail-blazer in the region. His prized bounty include: Gold Asean Award in the Sime Darby Art Asia (1985); Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman (1986, 1987); 1st Prize PNB (1985); the Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia (1999); the Winsor & Newton World Millennium (1999); two Awards of Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA (1997), and the Malaysian Watercolour Society Award (1984 and 1985). Though he first etched international fame in Bali, he is best known for his epic anthropological painting odyssey of the Mekong. In April 2013, a watercolour painting by Chang Fee Ming was sold for RM 198,000 at Henry Butcher Art Auction.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • Chang Fee Ming | House Goat, 1997
    Aug. 09, 2026

    Chang Fee Ming | House Goat, 1997

    Est: RM12,000 - RM20,000

    Chang Fee Ming is renowned for his intricate watercolour paintings. As a teenager, he worked at his brother-in-law's signboard shop in Kuala Terengganu, and learned to paint by tagging along with members of Singapore's Equator Art Society, a social-realist group, on their outdoor painting trips in the early 1980s. He has stayed with one subject for forty years: the ordinary people of the Terengganu coast and the wider region, painted in watercolour, a medium most artists treat as preparatory rather than serious. He is now regarded as one of Asia's leading watercolourists. This is an early work, painted in 1997 at miniature scale: a fisherman's household resting under an awning on a raised bamboo platform. Chang has said it was the batik his subjects wore, reflected in the seawater as they hauled their boats, that first taught him how colour works. House Goat belongs to the world he knows from the inside rather than from travel, which is why the attention falls on the unremarkable: the slack hour between tides, the people who rarely sit for a national portrait.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • Chang Fee Ming - Home Alone; Summer Lady I, 2000s
    Apr. 26, 2026

    Chang Fee Ming - Home Alone; Summer Lady I, 2000s

    Est: RM1,200 - RM2,400

    In this set of 2 prints on paper, Chang Fee Ming portrays a serene slice of village life, with elements such as a bamboo wall structure, timeworn rattan birdcage hanging against a sunlit, textured wall, and ornamental batik fabrics. From his rise in the mid-1980s with a clutch of prestigious awards, Chang Fee Ming has become one of Asia's best-known artists painting in watercolour today. The Sime Darby Gold Award (1985), the PNB Major Award (1984), Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman twice (1986 and 1987) and an unprecedented triple winner of the Malaysian Watercolour Society Prize (1984, 1986, 1987). More awards followed in the 1990s – Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997; Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia 1999; and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (co-winner, Malaysia, 1999). Fee Ming is best remembered for his epic Mekong painting odyssey, a great art-thropology insight tracing life around the great river across six countries up to its source in the plateaus of Tibet.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • Chang Fee Ming - Khon Phapheng Falls, Si Phan Don, Laos, 2000
    Apr. 26, 2026

    Chang Fee Ming - Khon Phapheng Falls, Si Phan Don, Laos, 2000

    Est: RM20,000 - RM38,000

    A master of watercolour, Chang Fee Ming is celebrated for his vivid, travel-rooted observations of Southeast Asian life and landscape. Khon Phapheng Falls captures one of the Mekong River's most dramatic cascades with intense energy and meticulous control. The work's swirling, almost tactile turbulence evokes the force of the water, while Fee Ming's signature attention to light, surface, and rhythm renders the scene not only topographically precise but emotionally resonant. Painted during one of the artist's many journeys through Indochina, this composition distills Fee Ming's fascination with the interplay between natural grandeur and human encounter. The painting is anything but static: light dances on water, textures crash into one another, and the viewer is pulled into the roiling force of the scene. Khon Phapheng Falls featured prominently in his landmark travelling exhibition Water And Earth (2004), a visual journal of riverine cultures and environments across Asia. Works from this period mark a high point in Fee Ming's painterly maturity, where his refined draftsmanship was tempered with a profound ecological and cultural sensitivity, bolstering his position as one of the most important watercolourists in Southeast Asia. In April 2013, a watercolour painting by Chang Fee Ming was sold for RM 198,000 at Henry Butcher Art Auction.

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  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Home Alone; Summer Lady I, 2000s
    Jan. 18, 2026

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Home Alone; Summer Lady I, 2000s

    Est: RM1,200 - RM2,000

    In this set of 2 prints on paper, Chang Fee Ming portrays a serene slice of village life, with elements such as a bamboo wall structure, timeworn rattan birdcage hanging against a sunlit, textured wall, and ornamental batik fabrics. From his rise in the mid-1980s with a clutch of prestigious awards, Chang Fee Ming has become one of Asia's best-known artists painting in watercolour today. His accolades include the Sime Darby Gold Award (1985), the PNB Major Award (1984), Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman twice (1986 and 1987) and an unprecedented triple winner of the Malaysian Watercolour Society Prize (1984, 1986, 1987). More awards followed in the 1990s — Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997; Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia 1999; and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (co-winner, Malaysia, 1999). Fee Ming is best remembered for his epic Mekong painting odyssey, a great art-thropology insight tracing life around the great river across six countries up to its source in the plateaus of Tibet.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Ikan Budu Goreng Telor (Kelantan); Nasi Campur Pattani (Kerabu Telor Masin + Tumis Hati Ayam); Pak Mat Sup Kepala Ikan (Kelantan); Nasi Campur Narathiwat (Mee Hun + Ayam Goreng) 2017
    Jan. 18, 2026

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Ikan Budu Goreng Telor (Kelantan); Nasi Campur Pattani (Kerabu Telor Masin + Tumis Hati Ayam); Pak Mat Sup Kepala Ikan (Kelantan); Nasi Campur Narathiwat (Mee Hun + Ayam Goreng) 2017

    Est: RM160,000 - RM220,000

    With the proliferation of food porn in social media, it's inevitable that the phenomenon makes a cameo in the arts too. Not so as selfie or wefie, but more a mark of cultural or personal taste in culinary transformations. Here, Chang Fee Ming makes a detour from his usual subjects on people, festivals and traditional abodes with this Makan Series which were shown at the 2022 CIMB Art & Soul: Curtain Call exhibition. Fee Ming's love of Malay food and fishes is evident in his occasional Facebook posts and his potpourri shows distinctly spicy Kelantan and south Thailand dishes, often with the rezeki (livelihood) angle. The ikan budu is not a fish per se but a fermented anchovy condiment. In five decades of a chequered career as a dedicated watercolorist, Chang Fee Ming has achieved accolades as a trail-blazer in the region. His prized bounty include: Gold  Asean Award in the Sime Darby Art Asia (1985); Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman (1986, 1987); 1st Prize PNB (1985); the Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia (1999); the Winsor & Newton World Millennium (1999); two Awards of Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA (1997), and the Malaysian Watercolour Society Award (1984 and 1985). Though he first etched international fame in Bali, he is best known for his epic anthropological painting odyssey of the Mekong.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Home Alone; Summer Lady I, 2000s
    Nov. 09, 2025

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Home Alone; Summer Lady I, 2000s

    Est: RM1,200 - RM2,000

    In this set of 2 prints on paper, Chang Fee Ming portrays a serene slice of village life, with elements such as a bamboo wall structure, timeworn rattan birdcage hanging against a sunlit, textured wall, and ornamental batik fabrics.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Big One!; In Thought, 2010
    Nov. 09, 2025

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Big One!; In Thought, 2010

    Est: RM12,000 - RM20,000

    Chang Fee Ming's delicate watercolour paintings draw inspiration from his encounters with people and traditions observed during his travels across Asia. In these pieces, he captures a lively scene of village life, portraying people in activities such as catching a fish, and resting on the ground, contemplating on various matters. From his rise in the mid-1980s with a clutch of prestigious awards, Chang Fee Ming has become one of Asia's best-known artists painting in watercolour today. The Sime Darby Gold Award (1985), the PNB Major Award (1984), Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman twice (1986 and 1987) and an unprecedented triple winner of the Malaysian Watercolour Society Prize (1984, 1986, 1987). More awards followed in the 1990s - Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997; Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia 1999; and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (co-winner, Malaysia, 1999). Fee Ming is best remembered for his epic Mekong painting odyssey, a great art-thropology insight tracing life around the great river across six countries up to its source in the plateaus of Tibet.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Catching The Morning Sunlight, 1991
    Jul. 27, 2025

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Catching The Morning Sunlight, 1991

    Est: RM90,000 - RM160,000

    Chang Fee Ming's Window series comprises "luxuriant and colourful fabrics hung or draped on windows and verandahs" (Wong Hoy Cheong). The rustic and the cultural can be seen from the bolsters, bed linen and sarong put out to dry exuding interesting batik patterns often derived from Nature. The Window series includes works such as Monsoon Has Gone I, II and III; Togetherness I and II; Summer Lady I and II; Honeymoon Season; Pillow; Memory; Morning In Terengganu; and Pagi Sore Sarong. Singapore curator Seng Yu Jin viewed Fee Ming's Window series as a portal transforming "between the private and the public that seduces the viewer to enter the usually private and interior space of a home." Some of the works were spread over two notable solo exhibitions, Second Chapter at GaleriWan in May 1990, and Selaut Kasih, SePantai Sayang exhibition at Bank Negara Malaysia Museum and Art Gallery in March-July 2016. The painting also reveals traditional kampung-house architecture of wooden walls or thatched woven partitions with the living quarters upraised on sturdy stilt poles. One of Asia's most prominent dedicated watercolourists, Chang Fee Ming achieved international acclaim with his outstanding awards such as the Major Asean Prize and Gold Award in the Sime Darby Art Asia Competition in 1985 and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition, Malaysian Category 1999. He also won the Dom Perignon Portrait of a Perfectionist Award (Malaysia, 1999) and double awards of distinction in the Rockport Publishers USA competition (1997). Other national-level awards included the Minor Awards in the Malaysian youths Bakat Muda Sejaman in 1986 and 1987, the PNB 1st Prize in 1985, and the Malaysian Watercolour Society Awards in 1984 and 1985. He is best known for his Mekong painting odyssey encompassing seven countries over a seven-year period.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Untitled, 1985
    Jul. 27, 2025

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Untitled, 1985

    Est: RM7,000 - RM13,000

    Among collectors and artists, Chang Fee Ming is well known for his knack of turning travel into a miniature theatre of colour: a lucky person would sometimes receive beautifully rendered vignette, painted on a mailed postcard, a glimpse into the artist's observations. The postcards suggest Chang's inclinations: rather than frontal portraits, the artist prefers glimpses of hands threading a net, a sarong drying on a railing, a pail catching the last light of afternoon. Portraiture recedes; fabric, light, and the labour implied within speaks. That habit of observation can already be seen in this early work. Painted in 1985, this work captures a kampung house beneath coconut trees, with two figures, presumably a mother and child sitting on the veranda. There are earthy ochres, charcoal greys and moss greens awash across the paper while negative space lets humid air seep between planks and foliage, with the idyllic scene recalling the legacy of the Nanyang School. Later journeys would lead Chang Fee Ming to his signature stunningly detailed and vigorously vibrant textiles and riverine scenes along the Mekong. But in this small Terengganu painting, one can already observe the seeds of his oeuvre: a keen regard for everyday ritual, a sensitivity to tropical light, and a close attention to the forms of body and cloth.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Home Alone; Summer Lady I, 2000s
    Jul. 27, 2025

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Home Alone; Summer Lady I, 2000s

    Est: RM1,200 - RM2,000

    In this set of 2 prints on paper, Chang Fee Ming portrays a serene slice of village life, with elements such as a bamboo wall structure, timeworn rattan birdcage hanging against a sunlit, textured wall, and ornamental batik fabrics. From his rise in the mid-1980s with a clutch of prestigious awards, Chang Fee Ming has become one of Asia's best-known artists painting in watercolour today. The Sime Darby Gold Award (1985), the PNB Major Award (1984), Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman twice (1986 and 1987) and an unprecedented triple winner of the Malaysian Watercolour Society Prize (1984, 1986, 1987). More awards followed in the 1990s - Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997; Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia 1999; and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (co-winner, Malaysia, 1999). Fee Ming is best remembered for his epic Mekong painting odyssey, a great art-thropology insight tracing life around the great river across six countries up to its source in the plateaus of Tibet.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • CHANG FEE MING | Balinese Pig
    Jun. 22, 2025

    CHANG FEE MING | Balinese Pig

    Est: S$4,800 - S$6,300

    Watercolor on paper: 25 x 37 cm Signed, lower left: F.M Chang Bali

    Global Auction
  • Chang Fee Ming; a. Dressed Up I; b. Dressed Up II
    Apr. 27, 2025

    Chang Fee Ming; a. Dressed Up I; b. Dressed Up II

    Est: S$5,500 - S$7,000

    Lot: 915 - Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959, Malaysian); a. Dressed Up I; b. Dressed Up II; executed in 1999; watercolour on paper; 20 x 12.5 cm (each); both signed on lower right; Pick up point: Singapore, Tags: modern, malaysian, drawing, balinese, figures IMPORTANT INFO Bidders need to know We encourage all buyers to check for condition reports and or other photos before bidding. The absence of a condition report does not imply that the lot is free from damage and wear. Please go through photos for more details on conditions and age; color will be different depends on your screen. All the items are sold as is and all sales are final. We encourage all bidders to review our terms and conditions before bidding. Please contact us through email info@larasati.com if you need any further information.

    Larasati Auctioneers
  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Waiting For The Tide (Beserah, Pahang, Malaysia), 1996
    Aug. 25, 2024

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Waiting For The Tide (Beserah, Pahang, Malaysia), 1996

    Est: RM2,000 - RM3,500

    Chang Fee Ming's intricate drawings are personal observations of the culture and traditions from his travels across Asia. In Waiting For The Tide, Fee Ming captures a transient moment of a local fisherman observing the tide in the state of Pahang, Malaysia. The cool stance of the fisherman viewed from the back is rendered in confident lines, enhanced with darker tones that give weight to the image. From his rise in the mid-1980s with a clutch of prestigious awards, Chang Fee Ming has become one of Asia's best-known artists painting in watercolour today. The Sime Darby Gold Award (1985), the PNB Major Award (1984), Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman twice (1986 and 1987) and an unprecedented triple winner of the Malaysian Watercolour Society Prize (1984, 1986, 1987). More awards followed in the 1990s - Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997; Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia 1999; and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (co-winner, Malaysia, 1999). Fee Ming is best remembered for his epic Mekong painting odyssey, a great art-thropology insight tracing life around the great river across six countries up to its source in the plateaus of Tibet.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Bali, 1994
    Aug. 25, 2024

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Bali, 1994

    Est: RM6,000 - RM10,000

    The graceful charm of a female Balinese dancer is captured with a sense of immediacy, reflecting the artist's ability to translate memories and emotion through delicate strokes of watercolour. From the refined design of the headdress to the illuminated sheen and folds of the dancer's robes, Chang Fee Ming's sophisticated painting showcases his skill in rendering textures. His impressions of his travels across different landscapes in Asia documents his observations of the lives of the people and culture, stunningly portrayed using the luminous and translucent medium of watercolour. From his rise in the mid-1980s with a clutch of prestigious awards, Chang Fee Ming has become one of Asia's best-known artists painting in watercolour today. The Sime Darby Gold Award (1985), the PNB Major Award (1984), Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman twice (1986 and 1987) and an unprecedented triple winner of the Malaysian Watercolour Society Prize (1984, 1986, 1987). More awards followed in the 1990s - Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997; Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia 1999; and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (co-winner, Malaysia, 1999). Fee Ming is best remembered for his epic Mekong painting odyssey, a great art-thropology insight tracing life around the great river across six countries up to its source in the plateaus of Tibet.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Fishermen - Narathiwat, Thailand (Post Card Series), 1998
    Aug. 25, 2024

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Fishermen - Narathiwat, Thailand (Post Card Series), 1998

    Est: RM7,000 - RM12,000

    Chang Fee Ming's intricate paintings in the medium of watercolour are made up of personal observations of the local people and traditions from his travels across Asia. Painted in translucent shades of watercolour, Fee Ming records the livelihood of the fishermen of Narathiwat, located in the southern province of Thailand that borders Malaysia. His personal impressions of place and people were finely preserved onto sheets of postcards, associated with the idea of travel. From his rise in the mid-1980s with a clutch of prestigious awards, Chang Fee Ming has become one of Asia's best-known artists painting in watercolour today. The Sime Darby Gold Award (1985), the PNB Major Award (1984), Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman twice (1986 and 1987) and an unprecedented triple winner of the Malaysian Watercolour Society Prize (1984, 1986, 1987). More awards followed in the 1990s - Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997; Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia 1999; and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (co-winner, Malaysia, 1999). Fee Ming is best remembered for his epic Mekong painting odyssey, a great art-thropology insight tracing life around the great river across six countries up to its source in the plateaus of Tibet.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • CHANG FEE MING : What About These? Mekong Delta, Vietnam, 2001
    Feb. 04, 2024

    CHANG FEE MING : What About These? Mekong Delta, Vietnam, 2001

    Est: RM2,000 - RM3,500

    A self-taught Balinese artist, Fee Ming was born in Terengganu, Malaysia in 1959. He began his career in the early 1980s and has since become one of Asia’s most highly regarded artists working mostly in watercolour. His works are acclaimed, exhibited and collected throughout the world and have appeared regularly on auction at Sotheby’s and Christie’s since 1995. Spending much of his time travelling, his main subject has been the people and places of Southeast Asia. Portrayed through an extraordinary grasp of texture and light, vibrancy of colour and composition, his work is suffused with pathos as well as beauty. He is currently based in Kuala Terengganu, although he returns frequently to Bali, his second home, and spends much of his time travelling through Asia. In his own words: ‘To travel and see and paint is for me a way of learning, part of my life philosophy’.

    KLAS Art Auction
  • CHANG FEE MING : Mingun, Myanmar, 1998
    Feb. 04, 2024

    CHANG FEE MING : Mingun, Myanmar, 1998

    Est: RM2,000 - RM3,500

    A self-taught Balinese artist, Fee Ming was born in Terengganu, Malaysia in 1959. He began his career in the early 1980s and has since become one of Asia’s most highly regarded artists working mostly in watercolour. His works are acclaimed, exhibited and collected throughout the world and have appeared regularly on auction at Sotheby’s and Christie’s since 1995. Spending much of his time travelling, his main subject has been the people and places of Southeast Asia. Portrayed through an extraordinary grasp of texture and light, vibrancy of colour and composition, his work is suffused with pathos as well as beauty. He is currently based in Kuala Terengganu, although he returns frequently to Bali, his second home, and spends much of his time travelling through Asia. In his own words: ‘To travel and see and paint is for me a way of learning, part of my life philosophy’.

    KLAS Art Auction
  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Farewell To My Dear Friend I, II, III
    Jan. 14, 2024

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Farewell To My Dear Friend I, II, III

    Est: RM22,000 - RM36,000

    Chang Fee Ming is an accomplished watercolourist known for his unique renditions and interpretations of peoples, traditional societies and their cultures and the often exotic, remote places he visited in Indonesia, Nepal, Africa, the Indo-Chinese communities along the Mekong right up to its source in Tibet. His impeccable skill is shown in the details of these works. Since his first foray to Bali in 1985, he has etched his place in Indonesian art history, especially in Bali. His array of awards includes the Malaysian Watercolour Society award (1984 and 1985), the Sime Darby Art Asia gold award (1985) and the PNB Malaysian art award (1985). He also won the Minor Awards in the Young Contemporary Artists competition in 1986 and 1987. He won distinction awards in the Rockport Publishers USA in 1997 and the Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award (Malaysia) in 1999. He was a co-winner (Malaysia) of the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition in 1999. In 2009, he was selected for the Singapore Tyler Print Institute project in 2009, which resulted in his solo exhibition Imprinted Thoughts. Fee Ming was honoured with a solo at Bank Negara Malaysia Museum & Art Gallery, and at Christie's Hong Kong for 2 months in 2015, titled Chang Fee Ming: Weaving The World In Watercolour.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Untitled, 2005
    Jan. 14, 2024

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Untitled, 2005

    Est: RM6,000 - RM10,000

    In this painting there is a strong sense of reflection, meditation, and respect. Focusing on two figures in an open space, this intimate watercolour on paper has a feeling of a meditative stillness and gratitude surrounding the daily lives of the people. Chang Fee Ming is an accomplished watercolourist known for his unique renditions and interpretations of peoples, traditional societies and cultures. He goes deep into the interiors, to the heart of isolated, marginalised traditional communities, to the off-the-beaten track areas in Indonesia, Africa, Myanmar, Cambodia, Nepal and even tracing the mighty Mekong right up to its source in Tibet - with the zeal of an anthropologist, the insight of a social scientist and above all, the great spirit of an artist. Since his first foray to Bali in 1985, he has etched his place in Indonesian art history, especially in Bali.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Untitled
    Oct. 01, 2023

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Untitled

    Est: RM8,000 - RM14,000

    Renowned for his sojourns across the world, Chang Fee Ming's intricate watercolours showcase his superb draughtsmanship. This piece demonstrates his observations of a peaceful abode near the coastline. In the foreground, soft green tones exude the airiness of the surroundings enveloped by towering coconut palms, leading the viewer towards the well-executed, brown tones of the thatched building structure, with a lady seated in front of the entrance. From his rise in the mid-1980s with a clutch of prestigious awards, Chang Fee Ming has become one of Asia's best-known artists painting in watercolour today. The Sime Darby Gold Award (1985), the PNB Major Award (1984), Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman twice (1986 and 1987) and an unprecedented triple winner of the Malaysian Watercolour Society Prize (1984, 1986, 1987). More awards followed in the 1990s - Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997; Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia 1999; and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (co-winner, Malaysia, 1999). Fee Ming is best remembered for his epic Mekong painting odyssey, a great art-thropology insight tracing life around the great river across six countries up to its source in the plateaus of Tibet.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • CHANG FEE MING : Lotus (Mukdahan), 2000
    Sep. 24, 2023

    CHANG FEE MING : Lotus (Mukdahan), 2000

    Est: RM7,000 - RM12,000

    Fee Ming’s envelopes and postcards allude to a variety of practices and customs. First day covers are maybe the most obvious, but these works are a subversion of them. They undermine the idealised nationhood paradigm. It would be a mistake to see and understand these works merely as drawings or studies, and to rate them solely on line or paint quality. Aesthetics is only one of several layers. These works have become documents with various narratives as a result of the method by which they were conceived and created. They are personal and geographical travel documents about the art of journeying and travelling. Observing and transforming information and experience. Of location and country, past and present, transitory and permanent.

    KLAS Art Auction
  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Long Life To The Past (Langkawi), 1993
    Jun. 25, 2023

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Long Life To The Past (Langkawi), 1993

    Est: RM70,000 - RM120,000

    The traditional timber Malay house, verandah et al and often built on stilts, is a fascinating study of climatic designs with an eye to ventilation. From pure practical convenience, it later evolved with embellishments reflecting the socio-economic and sub-ethnic status of its occupants. This house espied by the wanderlust artist Chang Fee Ming in Langkawi, had the unusual adjunct of window bars obviously due to security concerns with the kampung increasingly fringing the city. The carved parts, on top with the sun motif and on the lower panels with the punched star-shaped holes, are imbued with marks of the old Malay world-view. The artist's painting skill is impeccable. From his rise in the mid-1980s with a clutch of prestigious awards, Chang Fee Ming has become one of Asia's best-known artists painting in watercolour today. The Sime Darby Gold Award (1985), the PNB Major Award (1984), Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman twice (1986 and 1987) and an unprecedented triple winner of the Malaysian Watercolour Society Prize (1984, 1986, 1987). More awards followed in the 1990s – Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997; Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia 1999; and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (co-winner, Malaysia, 1999). Fee Ming is best remembered for his epic Mekong painting odyssey, a great art-thropology insight tracing life around the great river across six countries up to its source in the plateaus of Tibet.

    Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
  • CHANG FEE MING : Mingun, Myanmar, 1998
    Aug. 28, 2022

    CHANG FEE MING : Mingun, Myanmar, 1998

    Est: RM4,000 - RM8,000

    Born in a rural coastal town in East Malaysia, Chang Fee Ming is one of Asia’s most renowned watercolourists. His richly detailed and vibrantly coloured paintings of life in idyllic, rural scenes have established his reputation as a sensitive observer of culture and promoter of culture. Chang expertly transforms colours into wondrous snippets of life. The artist has developed a collection spanning more than two decades, depicting rural people, culture and landscapes of countries in Asia and beyond. His acclaimed artwork is exhibited and collected throughout the world, and has appeared regularly at Christie’s auctions since 1995.

    KLAS Art Auction
  • CHANG FEE MING : What About These? Mekong Delta, Vietnam, 2001
    Aug. 28, 2022

    CHANG FEE MING : What About These? Mekong Delta, Vietnam, 2001

    Est: RM4,000 - RM8,000

    Born in a rural coastal town in East Malaysia, Chang Fee Ming is one of Asia’s most renowned watercolourists. His richly detailed and vibrantly coloured paintings of life in idyllic, rural scenes have established his reputation as a sensitive observer of culture and promoter of culture. Chang expertly transforms colours into wondrous snippets of life. This work entitled ‘What About These?, Mekong Delta, Vietnam, 2001’ in particular is arresting, depicting a couple of locals clad in sarong and a shirt are congregated with straw hats to protect them from the sun, engrossed in their work. Meticulously rendered, one can discern the motifs on the sarongs and the subject’s profiles — simply beautiful.

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  • CHANG FEE MING : Mingun, Myanmar, 1998
    May. 29, 2022

    CHANG FEE MING : Mingun, Myanmar, 1998

    Est: RM4,500 - RM8,000

    Born in a rural coastal town in East Malaysia, Chang Fee Ming is one of Asia’s most renowned watercolourists. His richly detailed and vibrantly coloured paintings of life in idyllic, rural scenes have established his reputation as a sensitive observer of culture and promoter of culture. Chang expertly transforms colours into wondrous snippets of life. The artist has developed a collection spanning more than two decades, depicting rural people, culture and landscapes of countries in Asia and beyond. His acclaimed artwork is exhibited and collected throughout the world, and has appeared regularly at Christie’s auctions since 1995.

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  • CHANG FEE MING : What About These?, Mekong Delta, Vietnam, 2001
    May. 29, 2022

    CHANG FEE MING : What About These?, Mekong Delta, Vietnam, 2001

    Est: RM4,500 - RM8,000

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  • CHANG FEE MING : Usik-Mengusik, 1996
    Nov. 28, 2021

    CHANG FEE MING : Usik-Mengusik, 1996

    Est: RM1,000 - RM1,500

    Born in a rural coastal town in East Malaysia, Chang Fee Ming is one of Asia’s most renowned watercolourists. His richly detailed and vibrantly coloured paintings of life in idyllic, rural scenes have established his reputation as a sensitive observer of culture and promoter of culture. Chang expertly transforms colours into wondrous snippets of life. The artist has developed a collection spanning more than two decades, depicting rural people, culture and landscapes of countries in Asia and beyond. His acclaimed artwork is exhibited and collected throughout the world, and has appeared regularly at Christie’s auctions since 1995. Several books have been published about his work, including The World Of Chang Fee Ming (1995), Mekong (2004) and Imprinted Thoughts (2009) which was published in conjunction with his exhibition at Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI).

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  • CHANG FEE MING : Usik-Mengusik, 1996
    Oct. 03, 2021

    CHANG FEE MING : Usik-Mengusik, 1996

    Est: RM1,200 - RM1,800

    Born in a rural coastal town in East Malaysia, Chang Fee Ming is one of Asia’s most renowned watercolourists. His richly detailed and vibrantly coloured paintings of life in idyllic, rural scenes have established his reputation as a sensitive observer of culture and promoter of culture. Chang expertly transforms colours into wondrous snippets of life. The artist has developed a collection spanning more than two decades, depicting rural people, culture and landscapes of countries in Asia and beyond. His acclaimed artwork is exhibited and collected throughout the world, and has appeared regularly at Christie’s auctions since 1995. Several books have been published about his work, including The World Of Chang Fee Ming (1995), Mekong (2004) and Imprinted Thoughts (2009) which was published in conjunction with his exhibition at Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI).

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  • CHANG FEE MING : Rezeki, 1996
    Oct. 03, 2021

    CHANG FEE MING : Rezeki, 1996

    Est: RM1,200 - RM1,800

    In many of Chang’s works, the faces of his subjects are not seen. Rather, in beautiful, serene compositions he focuses with telling details. In this instance, it’s a vendor with weathered hands clad in yellow-hued sarong and a turquoise top selling red chillies and bananas. From Chang’s artistic perspective, the audience can have more space to think or feel after viewing the painting from a pair of hands or feet. This is unlike a painting with faces, where the audience will tend to seek to more or less know from the expression of the people in the painting.

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  • CHANG FEE MING : Mingun, Myanmar, 1998
    Oct. 03, 2021

    CHANG FEE MING : Mingun, Myanmar, 1998

    Est: RM2,800 - RM4,800

    Fans of Chang Fee Ming’s works invariably know that they would almost always revolve around traditional life in Malaysia, particularly his beloved home state of Terengganu, or what catches his eye whenever he wanders the planet. After all, as he is fond of saying, “To travel and see and paint is, for me, a way of learning, and part of my life’s philosophy.” His travels of rural Southeast Asia in his elaborately detailed, intensely coloured paintings, evident in this painting, ‘Mingun, Myanmar, 1998’. This is a serene composition of a fishing village in Myanmar, meticulously portrayed to transport viewers to the location.

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  • CHANG FEE MING : What About These? Mekong Delta, Vietnam, 2001
    Oct. 03, 2021

    CHANG FEE MING : What About These? Mekong Delta, Vietnam, 2001

    Est: RM2,800 - RM4,800

    Born in a rural coastal town in East Malaysia, Chang Fee Ming is one of Asia’s most renowned watercolourists. His richly detailed and vibrantly coloured paintings of life in idyllic, rural scenes have established his reputation as a sensitive observer of culture and promoter of culture. Chang expertly transforms colours into wondrous snippets of life. The artist has developed a collection spanning more than two decades, depicting rural people, culture and landscapes of countries in Asia and beyond. His acclaimed artwork is exhibited and collected throughout the world, and has appeared regularly at Christie’s auctions since 1995. Several books have been published about his work, including The World Of Chang Fee Ming (1995), Mekong (2004) and Imprinted Thoughts (2009) which was published in conjunction with his exhibition at Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI). This work entitled ‘What About These?, Mekong Delta, Vietnam, 2001’ in particular is arresting, depicting a couple of locals clad in sarong and a shirt are congregated with straw hats to protect them from the sun, engrossed in their work. Meticulously rendered, one can discern the motifs on the sarongs and the subject’s profiles — simply beautiful.

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  • Chang Fee Ming (b. Terengganu, 1959) The Drummer, 2010
    Aug. 22, 2021

    Chang Fee Ming (b. Terengganu, 1959) The Drummer, 2010

    Est: RM7,500 - RM12,500

    Chang Fee Ming is one of Asia’s most highly regarded artists working in watercolour. His sketches are influenced from his travels around the world, recording traditional ways of living and local culture. The Drummer illustrates the expressions of a musician in rich detail, translating his personal journey and observations. From his rise in the mid-1980s with a clutch of prestigious awards, Chang Fee Ming has become one of Asia’s best-known artists painting in watercolour today. The Sime Darby Gold Award (1985), the PNB Major Award (1984), Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman twice (1986 and 1987) and an unprecedented triple winner of the Malaysian Watercolour Society Prize (1984, 1986, 1987). More awards followed in the 1990s — Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997; Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia 1999; and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (co-winner, Malaysia, 1999). Fee Ming is best remembered for his epic Mekong painting odyssey, a great art-thropology insight tracing life around the great river across six countries up to its source in the plateaus of Tibet.

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  • CHANG FEE MING : Ebb Tide, 1996
    Jun. 27, 2021

    CHANG FEE MING : Ebb Tide, 1996

    Est: RM900 - RM1,800

    Born in a rural coastal town in East Malaysia, Chang Fee Ming is one of Asia’s most renowned watercolourists. His richly detailed and vibrantly coloured paintings of life in idyllic, rural scenes have established his reputation as a sensitive observer of culture and promoter of culture. Chang expertly transforms colours into wondrous snippets of life. The artist has developed a collection spanning more than two decades, depicting rural people, culture and landscapes of countries in Asia and beyond. His acclaimed artwork is exhibited and collected throughout the world, and has appeared regularly at Christie’s auctions since 1995. Several books have been published about his work, including The World Of Chang Fee Ming (1995), Mekong (2004) and Imprinted Thoughts (2009) which was published in conjunction with his exhibition at Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI). This work entitled Ebb Tide in particular is arresting, depicting a couple of locals clad in sarong and a shirt at the beach, engrossed in their work. Meticulously rendered, one can discern the motifs on the sarongs, their chiselled calves to their reflection on the water — simply beautiful.

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  • CHANG FEE MING : Ebb Tide, 1996
    Mar. 28, 2021

    CHANG FEE MING : Ebb Tide, 1996

    Est: RM900 - RM1,800

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  • CHANG FEE MING : Fields of Gold, 1994
    Mar. 28, 2021

    CHANG FEE MING : Fields of Gold, 1994

    Est: RM900 - RM1,800

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  • Chang Fee Ming (b. Terengganu, 1959) Long Life To The Past (Langkawi), 1993
    Nov. 15, 2020

    Chang Fee Ming (b. Terengganu, 1959) Long Life To The Past (Langkawi), 1993

    Est: RM85,000 - RM150,000

    The traditional timber Malay house, verandah et al and often built on stilts, is a fascinating study of climatic designs with an eye to ventilation. From pure practical convenience, it later evolved with embellishments reflecting the socio-economic and sub-ethnic status of its occupants. This house espied by the wanderlust artist Chang Fee Ming in Langkawi, had the unusual adjunct of window bars obviously due to security concerns with the kampung increasingly fringing the city. The carved parts, on top with the sun motif and on the lower panels with the punched star-shaped holes, are imbued with marks of the old Malay world-view. The artist’s painting skill is impeccable. From his rise in the mid-1980s with a clutch of prestigious awards, Chang Fee Ming has become one of Asia’s best-known artists painting in watercolour today. The Sime Darby Gold Award (1985), the PNB Major Award (1984), Minor Awards in Bakat Muda Sezaman twice (1986 and 1987) and an unprecedented triple winner of the Malaysian Watercolour Society Prize (1984, 1986, 1987). More awards followed in the 1990s – Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997; Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia 1999; and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (co-winner, Malaysia, 1999). Fee Ming is best remembered for his epic Mekong painting odyssey, a great art-thropology insight tracing life around the great river across six countries up to its source in the plateaus of Tibet.

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  • CHANG FEE MING : Fishermen - Narathiwat, Thailand, 1998 (Post Card Series)
    Sep. 06, 2020

    CHANG FEE MING : Fishermen - Narathiwat, Thailand, 1998 (Post Card Series)

    Est: RM6,000 - RM12,000

    Born in a rural coastal town in East Malaysia, Chang Fee Ming is one of Asia’s most renowned watercolourists. His richly detailed and vibrantly coloured paintings of life in idyllic, rural scenes have established his reputation as a sensitive observer of culture and promoter of culture. Chang expertly transforms colours into wondrous snippets of life. The artist has developed a collection spanning more than two decades, depicting rural people, culture and landscapes of countries in Asia and beyond. His acclaimed artwork is exhibited and collected throughout the world, and has appeared regularly at Christie’s auctions since 1995. Several books have been published about his work, including The World Of Chang Fee Ming (1995), Mekong (2004) and Imprinted Thoughts (2009) which was published in conjunction with his exhibition at Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI).

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  • Chang Fee Ming (b. Terengganu, 1959) Balinese Dancer, 1992
    Aug. 23, 2020

    Chang Fee Ming (b. Terengganu, 1959) Balinese Dancer, 1992

    Est: RM5,000 - RM10,000

    An inspiring trip to Bali allowed the artist to gain insight into Balinese culture and rich heritage. This painting illustrates graceful rhythmic movements of dancers wearing ceremonial attire rendered in spontaneous lines overlapped with translucent strokes produced by dabbing on watercolours. Chang Fee Ming is one of the most accomplished artists dedicated to watercolours, pushing the parameters of expression and techniques. His string of accolades include Sime Darby Art Asia Award (Gold / Overall Asean Prize, 1985), Malaysian Watercolour Society Award (1984 and 1985), PNB Malaysian Art Competition (1st Prize, 1985), and the Malaysian Young Contemporaries Award (Minor, 1986 and 1987). He also received Awards of Distinction from the Rockport Publishers USA (1997) and Dom Perignon Malaysia (1999). He was the co-winner (Malaysia) of the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Competition in 1999. In 2015, Christie’s Private Selling Exhibition featured Chang Fee MIng: Weaving The World In Watercolour in Hong Kong. He was also honoured with a solo exhibition Chang Fee Ming — Terengganu: Selaut Kasih Sepantai Sayang at Bank Negara Malaysia Museum & Art Gallery in 2016.

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  • Chang Fee Ming (b. Terengganu, 1959) Fishing Boats, 1998; Mekong Vietnam, 2001
    Aug. 23, 2020

    Chang Fee Ming (b. Terengganu, 1959) Fishing Boats, 1998; Mekong Vietnam, 2001

    Est: RM13,000 - RM26,000

    The artwork encapsulating a way of life along the great Mekong at its richest biodiversity in the Vietnamese delta point is well painted. In one, the hardy Vietnamese workers in the traditional Non La conical hats huddled and working in tandem, and in the other fishermen sorting out their catches onshore in a microcosm of archaic fishing. Fee Ming spent some seven years traversing land, life and communities along the Mekong, the 12th longest in the world wending across six countries, and the sequel, Mekong Exploring The Source, from Weixi, Dali and Xishuangbanna in China down to Cuu Long, or Nine Dragons Delta in Vietnam. The countries covered were China, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The years 1984-1985 launched Chang Fee Ming as a major watercolourist when he won the coveted Asean Gold Award in the Sime Darby Art Asia competition (1985), the 1st Prize in the PNB Malaysia Art Competition (1985), and the Malaysian Watercolour Society Awards in 1984 and again in 1985. He also won the Minor Awards in the prestigious national Young Contemporaries (Bakat Muda Sezaman) in 1986 and again in 1987. Other laurels include the Awards of Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997 and the Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia (1999); Co-winner of the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (1999). He has achieved wide international acclaim since his first solo, at Galeri Citra, Kuala Lumpur, in 1987. In 2015, Christie’s Private Selling Exhibition featured Chang Fee MIng: Weaving The World In Watercolour in Hong Kong. He was also honoured with a solo exhibition Chang Fee Ming — Terengganu: Selaut Kasih Sepantai Sayang at Bank Negara Malaysia Museum & Art Gallery in 2016.

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  • Chang Fee Ming (b. Terengganu, 1959) Lady & Cat (Narathiwat, Thailand), 1998; Morning Coolness (Lamalera, Pulau Lembata, Indonesia), 1998
    Aug. 23, 2020

    Chang Fee Ming (b. Terengganu, 1959) Lady & Cat (Narathiwat, Thailand), 1998; Morning Coolness (Lamalera, Pulau Lembata, Indonesia), 1998

    Est: RM12,000 - RM24,000

    On offer here are a set of watercolours which both illustrate a peaceful setting taken in Thailand and Indonesia. Lady & Cat depicts a woman perhaps tired after a long day sleeping on the wooden house gazebo accompanied by a cat while the other piece depicts a morning scene at a market place in Lamalera, Indonesia. Chang Fee Ming is one of the most accomplished artists dedicated to watercolours, pushing the parameters of expression and techniques. His string of accolades include Sime Darby Art Asia Award (Gold / Overall Asean Prize, 1985), Malaysian Watercolour Society Award (1984 and 1985), PNB Malaysian Art Competition (1st Prize, 1985); and the Malaysian Young Contemporaries Award (Minor, 1986 and 1987). He also received Awards of Distinction from the Rockport Publishers USA (1997) and Dom Perignon Malaysia (1999). He was the co-winner (Malaysia) of the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Competition in 1999. In 2015, Christie’s Private Selling Exhibition featured Chang Fee MIng: Weaving The World In Watercolour in Hong Kong. He was also honoured with a solo exhibition Chang Fee Ming — Terengganu: Selaut Kasih Sepantai Sayang at Bank Negara Malaysia Museum & Art Gallery in 2016.

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  • a. Dressed Up I; b. Dressed Up II
    Mar. 19, 2020

    a. Dressed Up I; b. Dressed Up II

    Est: Rp65,000,000 - Rp75,000,000

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959, Malaysian), a. Dressed Up I; b. Dressed Up II, 1999, watercolour on paper, 20 x 12.5 cm (each), both signed on lower right

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  • Chang Fee Ming (b. Terengganu, 1959) Chord Of Friendship, 1986
    Mar. 15, 2020

    Chang Fee Ming (b. Terengganu, 1959) Chord Of Friendship, 1986

    Est: RM130,000 - RM230,000

    For two consecutive years in 1986 and 1987, Chang Fee Ming departed from his usual watercolour métier of exotic Asian and African places, to produce stunning works that won the coveted Minor Awards of the Young Contemporary Artists (Bakat Muda Sezaman, BMS) both times. The winning 1986 mixed media work, Chord Of Friendship, is a double-edge weapon with undercurrents of tension using 16 innocuous newspaper clip excerpts of peace and rapprochement. As the Latin adage goes, Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war). The work of newspaper, fishing net, strings, hooks and wood fits the theme of International Year of Peace. The taut tug of strings from the weaver’s shuttles suggest an ever-present tension, while the irony of the shuttles’ shape of pen nibs symbolically used to ink peace looking like missiles is not lost. Friendship among nations is not a permanent thing and this is borne out by the effects of globalization from an erstwhile bipolar world of the Cold War in the second half of the 20th century. The main pictures are taken from newsclippings of then prime minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad’s 1985 visit to China, following up on the epochal 1974 visit by then prime minister Tun Abdul Razak. This work was re-shown at the Imbas Kembali BMS in 1999. An extraordinary artist working mainly in watercolours, the wanderlust Chang Fee Ming has a string of accolades that inscribes his pre-eminence: the Sime Darby Art Asia Award (Gold / Overall Asean Prize, 1985); the Malaysian Watercolour Society Award in 1984 and 1985); the PNB Malaysian Art Competition (1st Prize, 1985) He also received Awards of Distinction from the Rockport Publishers USA (1997) and Dom Perignon Malaysia (1999), and was a co-winner (Malaysia) of the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Competition in 1999. In the Larasati Jan 26, 2013 auction in Singapore, his seminal work, Mandalay from the 1995 Road to Mandalay exhibition in Jakarta, Indonesia, sold for a premium of S$103,700 (RM255,924) – a record for a watercolour in Southeast Asia.

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  • Good Morning
    Nov. 08, 2019

    Good Morning

    Est: £12,000 - £15,000

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959, Malaysian), Good Morning, 1992, watercolour on paper, 76 x 56 cm, signed on upper left

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  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Two Woman, 1986
    Nov. 03, 2019

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Two Woman, 1986

    Est: RM100,000 - RM180,000

    Two women squatting and huddled in the limited shade of a boat parked on the beachfront, making a transaction over small fishes (in basket). There’s not much to be made by the itinerant vendor from selling small fishes, in the hot sun, and it’s probably a luxury for the other party to be able to afford to buy. Only the rainbow- strip patterns of the boat, though straited, offers a colourful respite to the scene. Such is the industry and enterprise of the Kelantan womenfolk that they can be seen in the padi-fields, in the open wet market and on the sea shore, helping out net-mending, making fish crackers (keropok) and dried anchovies or carrying the haul or fishing gear back. No stereotype gender roles in the kitchen for them, although they would be firing up the stoves, to cook food for the family. Still, with modern marketing, sorting and distribution under the LKIM (Lembaga Kemajuan Ikan Malaysia), these women may be rendered obsolete, but you can’t easily put these matriarchs down or out. Chang Fee Ming has produced some of the most spectacular watercolour tomes tracing the Mekong, on Bali, East Africa and the Malaysian East Coast, among other places. He had twice won the Malaysian Watercolour Society award (1984 and 1985) and the Bakat Muda Sezaman Minor Awards (1986 and 1987) besides 1st Prize in the PNB competition (1985). His biggest prize was the Gold and Overall Asean Prize in the Sime Darby Art Asia Competition in 1985. Other accolades include two Awards of Distinction, Rockport Publishers USA 1997; the Dom Perignon Portrait of A Perfectionist Award, Malaysia 1999; and the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Painting Competition (co-winner, Malaysian category (1999).

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  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Red Gingers, 1993
    Nov. 03, 2019

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Red Gingers, 1993

    Est: RM20,000 - RM35,000

    The ginger plant, as are many others in tropical Asian botany, has always fascinated Chang Fee Ming, for the colours, shape, intricacies and efficacy of its purported medicinal qualities. Painting flowers and plants is also a distraction from his other alfresco expressions of rural life and people, the Man-Nature symbiosis in life sustenance and cultural tradition. This ginger plant work shown at the Exotic Tropicals exhibition at Galeri Citra, Kuala Lumpur, way back in 1994, is not only a study of spices and folk medicine but also a way of depicting the bloom, a solitary efflorescence, amidst a vegetation of green, using the watercolour medium. Chang Fee Ming is one of the most accomplished artists dedicated to watercolours, pushing the parameters of expression and techniques. His string of accolades include Sime Darby Art Asia Award (Gold / Overall Asean Prize, 1985), Malaysian Watercolour Society Award (1984 and 1985), PNB Malaysian Art Competition (1st Prize, 1985); and the Malaysian Young Contemporaries Award (Minor, 1986 and 1987). He also received Awards of Distinction from the Rockport Publishers USA (1997) and Dom Perignon Malaysia (1999). He was the co-winner (Malaysia) of the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Competition in 1999.

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  • Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Dreaming Of The Beijing Olympics; Thinking Of Home, 2006
    Nov. 03, 2019

    Chang Fee Ming (b. 1959) Dreaming Of The Beijing Olympics; Thinking Of Home, 2006

    Est: RM18,000 - RM32,000

    The expressions of the children are well captured: one is eagerly anticipating the Beijing Olympics which will be held in 2008, one is missing home. So contrasting are the two boys in warm clothings in different pictures, one in blue with red chest covers and the other in just red sweater buttoned up to the neck. The cold rarefied heights are suggested by the peaks in the back. This is a double portrait offer from the sketchbook of Chang Fee Ming in his peregrination traversing along the mighty Mekong. Chang Fee Ming is one of the most accomplished artists dedicated to watercolours, pushing the parameters of expression and techniques. His string of accolades include Sime Darby Art Asia Award (Gold / Overall Asean Prize, 1985), Malaysian Watercolour Society Award (1984 and 1985), PNB Malaysian Art Competition (1st Prize, 1985); and the Malaysian Young Contemporaries Award (Minor, 1986 and 1987). He also received Awards of Distinction from the Rockport Publishers USA (1997) and Dom Perignon Malaysia (1999). He was the co-winner (Malaysia) of the Winsor & Newton World Millennium Competition in 1999.

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