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TPH Tan Peng Hooi painter of Penang

Series

Prosperity Carps

Carp at play in blue water, lotus opening on a pond. These are classical Chinese subjects of prosperity and purity, painted in oil with the same attention Tan gives a harbour sky. They show the second engine of his art: not observation of what is vanishing, but continuity with what is inherited.

12 works in this series

Oil painting titled Golden Carps by Tan Peng Hooi, 1992.
Rural life, birds, flowers and auspicious nature

Golden Carps

1992, oil on canvas, 40 x 70 cm

Mr & Mrs Dr. Lim Huat Beng

Oil painting titled Golden Carps by Tan Peng Hooi, 1994.
Rural life, birds, flowers and auspicious nature

Golden Carps

1994, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in

Mr Sim Teong Khang

Oil painting titled Golden Carps by Tan Peng Hooi, 1994.
Rural life, birds, flowers and auspicious nature

Golden Carps

1994, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in

Mr Sim Teong Khang

Oil painting titled Golden Carps by Tan Peng Hooi, 1994.
Rural life, birds, flowers and auspicious nature

Golden Carps

1994, oil on canvas, 8 x 10 in

Mr Chong Kok Peng

Oil painting titled Golden Carps by Tan Peng Hooi, 1996.
Rural life, birds, flowers and auspicious nature

Golden Carps

1996, oil on canvas, 17 x 18 in

Mr & Mrs Loke Gim Tay

Oil painting titled Golden Carps by Tan Peng Hooi, 1997.
Rural life, birds, flowers and auspicious nature

Golden Carps

1997, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in

Mr & Mrs Vivek Sharma

Oil painting titled Golden Carps by Tan Peng Hooi, 1998.
Rural life, birds, flowers and auspicious nature

Golden Carps

1998, oil on canvas, 19 x 21 in

Mr Koay Bin Yong

Oil painting titled Golden Carps by Tan Peng Hooi, 1999.
Rural life, birds, flowers and auspicious nature

Golden Carps

1999, oil on canvas, 18 x 20 in

Bank Negara Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

Oil painting titled Golden Fishes by Tan Peng Hooi.
Rural life, birds, flowers and auspicious nature

Golden Fishes

oil on canvas, 12.5 x 13.5 in

Mr Sim Teong Khang

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