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Accession number
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1958-0044-0-CL
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Title
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Untitled
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Description
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Short, black, isometric outlines, and unblended, broken strokes of colour are applied over the entire canvas, forming a tessellation of small cuboids in this all-over, abstract representation of a slum. With a predominantly brown, earthy colour palette that consists of black, red, amber, white, and traces of blue, this landscape recalls the stylistics of Analytical Cubism.
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Inscriptions
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Signed and dated "1958".
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Dimensions with frame
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N/A
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Condition
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Remounted onto a new layer of white canvas and affixed to a new stretcher. A rectangular window has been cut into the new canvas so that the inscriptions on the original canvas remain visible. Vertical tear at the centre of the painting measuring approximately 11cm. Another tear near the top right corner of the work. The edges of the original canvas show serious signs of damage, hence the need for a new canvas. The work appears to have been cleaned recently. Tears at the top right and bottom right corners of the canvas; the new canvas has been painted brown to disguise the tear at the bottom right corner.
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Bibliography of printed matter
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Orianna Cacchione, “Tang Chang: Abstracting the Line, Retrieving the Image,” in Tang Chang: The Painting that is Painted with Poetry is Profoundly Beautiful, (Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, 2018), 5.
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All known reproductions.
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Tang Chang, Thassana sinlapa – thassana kawi [Thinking on Arts, Thinking on Poetry] (Nakhon Pathom: Tang Chang’s Descendants Publishing, 2020), 43.
จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง, ทัศนะศิลปะ – ทัศนะกวี, (นครปฐม: สำนักพิมพ์ ลูก-หลาน จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง, 2563), 43.
[Caption: Untitled (color). 1958. oil on canvas. 114x73 cm]
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Orianna Cacchione, “Tang Chang: Abstracting the Line, Retrieving the Image,” in Tang Chang: The Painting that is Painted with Poetry is Profoundly Beautiful, (Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, 2018), 5.
