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Accession number
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1960-0067-0-CA
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Title
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Untitled
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Description
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This abstract, gestural composition consists of a series of thin, wavy, parallel finger lines, and two broad, heavy, curvilinear, black downstrokes smeared over the canvas using the artist's hands, forming a shape resembling the Chinese character "儿". Small amounts of black paint are splattered over the entire image, while daubs of red and blue are mixed into a patchy, uneven background painted predominantly in white.
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Inscriptions
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Dated "1960" within the work. Signed and dated "1960" on the reverse, along with "No". The letter "o" has been underlined and there appear to be some inscriptions next to it. Some notes in pencil at two corners of the stretcher, including a circled "1" and arrows to indicate the orientation of the painting.
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Condition
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Craquelure. Dust and dirt. Insect droppings near the top edge. The canvas appears to have been remounted onto a new stretcher; the edges, which were previously painted black, are now visible within the frame of the composition. Paint flaking. Tears at the corners. Holes along the edges of the canvas, where it was previously nailed into the stretcher. Buckling.
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All known reproductions.
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Thip Sae-tang, Anuson Nai Kan Chapanakit Sop Khun Po Chang Sae-tang [Funeral Book of Tang Chang], (Bangkok: Wanmai, 1990), 22.
ทิพย์ แซ่ตั้ง, อนุสรณ์ในการฌาปนกิจศพ คุณพ่อ จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง, (กรุงเทพฯ: วันใหม่, 2533), 22.
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TANG CHANG “A MOMENT IN A LONG, PRODUCTIVE AND CREATIVE LIFE!” Selected Works from The Artist’s Collection of Living Words of Wisdom Vol. 2 (Nakhon Pathom: The Tang Chang Private Museum, 2002), 2.
จ่างแซ่ตั้ง: เวลาอันยาวนาน ภาคอักษรมีลมหายใจ 1967–1990 (บางบท) เล่ม 2 (นครปฐม: พิพิธภัณฑ์ จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง, 2545), 2.
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Tang Chang: Abstract Paintings - Concrete Poetry. (Nakhon Pathom: The Tang Chang Private Museum, 2013), 31, 151.
จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง: จิตรกรรมนามธรรม บทกวีรูปธรรม. (นครปฐม: พิพิธภัณฑ์ จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง, 2556), 31, 151.
[Caption: Untitled (3) / 1960 / oil on canvas / 79 x 92 cm.]
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David Teh, ed., “Misfits”: Pages from a loose-leaf modernity (Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2017), 51.
1960-0068-0-CA
