This is a reiteration of Tan Tong's Balletscape of the early 1990s after a reinvigorating re-visiting of Paris, with the drawn couple in serene aura in a pas de deux taking up one-and-a-half space in the eight-panelled composition and with the Eiffel Tower, the symbol of France, in the backdrop. One of the ballerina's legs is curled up backwards balanced by a pirouette while the male dancer just holds on to her upraised toes. One can imagine a more topical Edith Piaf's La Vie en rose (Life in Pink) instead of perhaps Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. As one enthralled by everything Picasso, Tan Tong could well image Picasso's wife, Olga, going through the choreography. Tan Tong, a Frenchman bottled in a Chinaman body, not only studied European art but French literature, and French words tripped out of his mouth like gravy. His first solo came at the Foyer des Artistes Galerie, Montparnasse, Paris, in 1967. The peak of his long career that saw 17 solos was his Retrospective given by Soka Gakkai Malaysia (SGM) called Homage To Tan Tong: His Life And Times, from Dec 17, 2011 to Jan 1, 2012, on the heels of a major exhibition, Homage To Picasso, also hosted by SGM, in 2006. Tan Tong was given a French Government scholarship to study at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts (ENSBA), Paris, in 1964-1969, and he graduated with a double diploma (Painting and Drawing) in 1974 and 1975. In 1974, he won the Fondation Rocheron Award at ENSBA. He won the Consolation Prize for Painting at the Salon Malaysia at the National Art Gallery in 1991. Tan Tong taught at the Malaysian Institute of Art in Kuala Lumpur for 26 years, retiring as Head of the Department of Art and Design in 2002.