Don't ask, but what’s with 3? ‘Three women’ seems a popular theme among artists East and West, and in Malaysia too, with Dato' Hoessein Enas and a mural by little-known Lyana. In Asia, there’s Anita Magsaysay-Ho and Amrita Sher-Gill. And in the West, there’s a scramble for the ‘les trois femmes’ composition by artists as diverse as Picasso, Matisse, Botero, O’Keeffe, Boccioni, Kandinsky, Marie Braquemond, and of course, Sandro Botticelli’s The Three Graces (in the larger Primavera). Jolly Koh does not refer to any painted antecedents when painting his three lissom women, at least the two standing facing each other on the right, rendered shadowy but with silhouette of their forces seductively traced in the nocturnal outdoors. The one on the left seems seated or in suspended seated posture. The question of what the trio are doing in an open area gets diminished by the luscious highlight of feminine forms against a top-half swathe of dark blue with lighter accentuating tones. An image of this work is featured on Page 207 of the 2008 book, Jolly Koh (2008). There is another Nocturne work, No. 3, but done in 2016 and featured in his solo at the Art Salon / XOAS Gallery. Jolly Koh was schooled in the finest art institutions in UK and the USA — Hornsey College of Art and London University; and Indiana University (Fulbright scholarship for his Masters, and was made teaching associate too). He taught briefly in Malaysia before teaching in Melbourne and then Adelaide in Australia for most of his 20 years there. On his return to Malaysia, he taught at the MSC College (now SEGi) from 2000 to 2004. He was accorded a milestone late-survey exhibition by Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers at MAP Publika Kuala Lumpur in 2017, celebrating 60 years of painting since his first solo at the British Council Kuala Lumpur in 1957 at the age of 16! It was accompanied by the publication of a fine book (Jolly Koh @ 76) of his life paintings.