On offer is a pair of sketches by prolific painter Tan Choon Ghee depicting anonymous figures at rest. Laying on the ground, the tired bodies could belong to construction workers who would normally take naps during their short breaks.
Tan Choon Ghee completed his secondary education from Chung Ling high school in 1948 and graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art in Singapore in 1951. He then attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1957 to 1959. He had received a German government painting scholarship and an Australian government television set design scholarship. He had worked for TV Singapore and TV Broadcast Ltd in Hong Kong prior to becoming a fulltime artist. In 2017, Tan’s wife, Madam Kam Hye Sin, has entrusted Penang State Art Gallery to be the permanent custodian of 124 artworks created between 1958 and 2000.