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b. 1941 - d. 2001

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    • Joseph Tan Chan Jin (b. 1941 - 2001) Untitled, 1969
      May. 19, 2024

      Joseph Tan Chan Jin (b. 1941 - 2001) Untitled, 1969

      Est: RM4,000 - RM7,000

      A study from Joseph Tan's Pop Graffiti phase depicting tubular forms, carefully intercepted along an axis graph. Despite having his works featured in numerous Malaysian travelling exhibitions abroad, Joseph Tan had relatively few works in his four-decade career, where he held only two solos - one in 1968 (Samat Gallery, KL) and the other in 1973 (Universiti Malaya, KL). He is remembered for his Love Me Series, Dungun Series, Formation Series, Endau Rompin Series and Tambun Series. Reason for the paucity of works was also because he was deeply involved in academia (Mara Institute of Technology, for 25 years) and administration (acting director of National Art Gallery besides being a member of its board of trustees for five terms; general manager of Hong Leong's Nanyang Gallery of Art; and director of Studies in Land & General Institute of Art and Design, which included a 1996 AusAsia conservation programme). He obtained his Fine Art diploma at the East Sydney Technical College, National Art School New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and was awarded a Fulbright-Hays scholarship for his MFA at The School of Art Institute of Chicago. He had also taught art in the Granville Boys High School.

      Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
    • Joseph Tan Chan Jin (b. 1941 - 2001) Untitled, 1968
      Jan. 14, 2024

      Joseph Tan Chan Jin (b. 1941 - 2001) Untitled, 1968

      Est: RM40,000 - RM60,000

      This early 1968 work by Joseph Tan Chan Jin from his Pop Graffiti phase exemplified by the iconic Love Me In My Batik (in the National Art Gallery collection) dispels the erroneous assertion by an art historian that none of the works in this series survived! The figures, rendered in tubular wrap-around form with stitched markings, elicit a whorl of interpretations, with the letters x, y and z adding to the teaser. The same vermilion vertical column framing the sexy half-clothed figure in the collaged Love Me In My Batik also couches the bandaged configuration(s) in a right-angled bevel in this work. Love Me In My Batik frontlines a seminal comprehensive exhibition on the development of batik art in Malaysia at Ilham Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, on Feb 28-June 20, 2016. This work was not shown in Joseph Tan's Retrospective at the National Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, in 2006. This work seems associated to the thematic thrust of Love Me In My Batik. Despite having his works featured in numerous Malaysian travelling exhibitions abroad, Joseph Tan had relatively few works in his four-decade career, where he held only two solos – one in 1968 (Samat Gallery, KL) and the other in 1973 (Universiti Malaya, KL). Still, he is remembered for his Love Me Series, Dungun Series, Formation Series, Endau Rompin Series and Tambun Series. Reason for the paucity of works was also because he was deeply involved in academia (Mara Institute of Technology, for 25 years) and administration (acting director of National Art Gallery besides being a member of its board of trustees for five terms; general manager of Hong Leong's Nanyang Gallery of Art; and director of Studies in Land & General Institute of Art and Design, which included a 1996 AusAsia conservation programme). He obtained his Fine Art diploma at the East Sydney Technical College, National Art School New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and was awarded a Fulbright-Hays scholarship for his MFA at The School of Art Institute of Chicago. He had also taught art in the Granville Boys High School.

      Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
    • Joseph Tan (b. Penang, 1941 - d. 2001) Studies No-1, 1988
      Aug. 23, 2020

      Joseph Tan (b. Penang, 1941 - d. 2001) Studies No-1, 1988

      Est: RM8,000 - RM13,000

      In Joseph Tan’s ground-breaking landscape works, he made studies and experiments in “building up the surface and looking at the effects and stopping it from being porous and to effect a luminous quality.” In an interview with art-writer Ooi Kok Chuen in the New Straits Times in 1991, he opined: “I like the interaction of colours and surface, of the form melting into the void, at times becoming the void… My Dungun office faced the South China Sea. Day in and day out, I saw the sky and the horizon, the changing light, especially during the monsoon time, the sea, the sand and the wide expanse of space.” Joseph Tan excelled in multiple roles in art besides being an artist. He was acting director of the National Art Gallery (Oct 1974 to May 1976) and a member of its board trustee for five terms; general manager of the Hong Leong’s Nanyang Gallery of Art (1992-1995); Director of Studies in Land and General Company (1996-1998), which included a 1996 AusAsia conservation programme; senior lecturer / coordinator of the Mara Institute of Technology for 25 years, from 1969 to 1992, and was also Head of Foundation Studies. After his Fine Art diploma at the New South Wales National School (1963-1966), he was awarded a Fulbright Hayes scholarship for a BFA at the Art Institute of Chicago (1969-1972) including a stint as a graduate assistant. When in New South Wales, he also taught for a year at the Granville Boy High School (1967). His major national exhibitions include the 1988 Pasadena show, Sydney Biennale (1974), Malaysian Art Since Independence (1977), 4th Indian Triennial (1978), Malaysian Art (Commonwealth Institute, 1978), 1st Contemporary Asian Art Show (Fukuoka Art Museum, 1980), Baghdad International Art Festival (1988), Malaysian Art in Germany (1991), and Rupa Malaysia (London, 1998).

      Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
    • Joseph Tan (b. Penang, 1941 - d. Pahang, 2001) Studies For Landscapes, 1998
      Mar. 15, 2020

      Joseph Tan (b. Penang, 1941 - d. Pahang, 2001) Studies For Landscapes, 1998

      Est: RM8,000 - RM14,000

      Works of Joseph Tan, a giant 4As in Malaysian Art (Activist, Administrator, Academician, Artist), are hard to come by, the last and only time being the Henry Butcher Oct 28, 2012 auction. This companion pair of works was featured at the Joseph Tan Retrospective at the National Art Gallery Malaysia, in 2006. In a career spanning four decades, he held only two solos, in 1968 (Samat Gallery, KL) and 1973 (Universiti Malaya, KL) respectively, but had featured in numerous major national exhibitions at home and abroad including the Malaysian Art Travelling to Australia and New Zealand in 1969 and the Contemporary Paintings of Malaysia exhibition in Pasadena, California, in 1988. This was part of his painstaking exploration of space, forms, surface and patterns on his Dungun and Formation Series, inspired by the mossy green rocks of Dungun when he was in Terengganu as the Mara Institute of Technology’s foundation course coordinator (1976-1980). In his ground-breaking landscape works, he made studies and experiments in “building up the surface and looking at the effects and stopping it from being porous and to effect a luminous quality.” In an interview with art-writer Ooi Kok Chuen in the New Straits Times in 1991, he opined: “I like the interaction of colours and surface, of the form melting into the void, at times becoming the void… My Dungun office faced the South China Sea. Day in and day out, I saw the sky and the horizon, the changing light, especially during the monsoon time, the sea, the sand and the wide expanse of space.” Joseph Tan excelled in multiple roles in art besides being an artist. He was acting director of the National Art Gallery (Oct 1974 to May 1976) and a member of its board trustee for five terms; general manager of the Hong Leong’s Nanyang Gallery of Art (1992-1995); Director of Studies in Land and General Company (1996-1998), which included a 1996 AusAsia conservation programme; senior lecturer / coordinator of the Mara Institute of Technology for 25 years, from 1969 to 1992, and was also Head of Foundation Studies. After his Fine Art diploma at the New South Wales National School (1963-1966), he was awarded a Fulbright Hayes scholarship for a BFA at the Art Institute of Chicago (1969-1972) including a stint as a graduate assistant. When in New South Wales, he also taught for a year at the Granville Boy High School (1967). His major national exhibitions include the 1988 Pasadena show; Sydney Biennale (1974); Malaysian Art Since Independence (1977); 4th Indian Triennial (1978); Malaysian Art (Commonwealth Institute, 1978); 1st Contemporary Asian Art Show (Fukuoka Art Museum, 1980); Baghdad International Art Festival (1988); Malaysian Art in Germany (1991); and Rupa Malaysia (London, 1998).

      Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers
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