Title
Calligraphy in combined Seal, Regular, Running and Cursive scripts
Creator
Year/Period
1980
Region
Singapore
Material
Dimension
Image size: Mount: H221 x W58.5 cm,
Image size: Artwork: H112.8 x W42 cm
Image size: Artwork: H112.8 x W42 cm
Accession No.
P-0593
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Tan Tsze Chor (Dr)
Born Tan Tiow Phuang (1911-1983) in Singapore, Dr Tan Tsze Chor went to China at age four for his education and returned at 17. A successful businessman known in the region as the ‘pepper king’, he was an avid collector of Chinese art and a philanthropist who donated money and artworks to various institutions, including the University of Malaya (now National University of Singapore) and the Singapore Art Society.Largely self-taught, Tan developed a unique style of combining seal, regular, running and cursive scripts in a piece of calligraphy that can be seen in this work. One of his late works, the writing here is freer and more expressive than those from the earlier period.
