Lot Essay
This batik may be compared to 'Discussion', a painting by Cheong Soo Pieng shown in a solo exhibition of the artist in the Art Museum, Singapore June 1956, and illustrated in colour in the catalogue. The painting shows a group of eight women seated, with palm branches appearing from the left, the three women depicted in the batik are taken from the left hand side of this painting with slight differences resulting from the different media used in both cases, notably that the eyes appear wide open in the batik compared to the impression that they are lowered in the painting.