These two nudes are a contrast to the bolder and brasher oil version of 1999, when Tew Nai Tong revisited Paris. With watercolours, the aim is on the tenderness and fragility and the softness of the female form. It is a triumph of technique and subject matter! On Paris, Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) wrote: “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” After graduating from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art in Singapore in 1958, Nai Tong furthered his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, returning in 1968. He started teaching at the Malaysian Institute of Art in 1969-80, the Central Academy of Art in 1982-85, and then the Saito Academy of Art in 1986-88 before deciding to become a fulltime artist in 1992. His first solo was at the British Council in 1964 and he was being accorded a mini-retrospective by the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, in 2007. Nai Tong won 2nd Prize in the Standard Chartered Bank Mural Design Competition (1964), the Shell Watercolour Award (1981), Best Award in Esso (1980), the Dunlop Watercolour Award (1983), Grand Prize Asia Art Award (Malaysia) in Seoul in 2009. He was co-founder of Malaysian Watercolour Society and the Contemporary Malaysian Watercolorist Association and Le Beaux Art Gallery.