A double nude, one real and standing full frontal and the other painted like a reclining maya, back to viewer. Suggestive stalks of the Flamingo Flower (red Anthurium) with its large whorl of heart-shaped leaves vie for attention with some white lilies, in a clash of the brazen and the pure. What is the girl doing in the house in the nude, and it takes quite a woman to hang a large nude painting in the house. An apple and two pears are scattered on the table in a still-life with innuendoes. Tew Nai Tong studied at the the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts (1967-1968) after a fast-track stint at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art in Singapore, from 1957-1958. He helped set up the Malaysian Watercolour Society, and the Contemporary Malaysian Watercolour Association, and co-founded the Le Beaux Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur. In 2007, he had a major survey exhibition, Odyssey, at the National Art Gallery. He won best awards in the Shell (watercolour, 1981), Esso (1982), Dunlop (watercolour, 1983) competitions. He was the 2009 Malaysian winner of the Asia Art Award in Seoul, South Korea. He had lectured at three art academies for 23 years before deciding to go fulltime in 1992.