0000-1055-0-CS

Accession number

0000-1055-0-CS

Title

Untitled

Description

A close-up, frontal self-portrait painted in a semi-realistic style, using a colour palette dominated by yellow hues, over a textured base formed by thick, diagonal, scar-like strokes of an impasto medium. The subject gazes directly at the viewer, his brows furrowed in a solemn expression.

Categories

Self-portrait

Colour

Inscriptions

"62" underlined and written upside down on the back of the frame. Labelled "1977" on a piece of corrugated plastic affixed to the bottom right corner of the frame.

Year

Unknown

1977

Date

Unknown

Dimensions

43.5 x 43.5

Dimensions with frame

82.7 x 83.1

Condition

Craquelure. Paint flaking. Discolouration; some brushstrokes are marked by brown spots. White stains on frame (likely due to lizard droppings which have since been removed). Fingerprints on the frame. Lizard droppings and a lizard egg stuck in the crevices of the back of the frame.

Medium

Oil on canvas

Current location

Collection of The Tang Chang Private Museum

All known reproductions.

Nawapooh Sae-tang (ed.), Chang Sueksa [Chang Studies], (Nakhon Pathom: Tang Chang’s Descendants Publishing, 2020), jacket.
นวภู แซ่ตั้ง (บรรณาธิการ), จ่าง ศึกษา (นครปฐม: สำนักพิมพ์ ลูก-หลาน จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง, 2563), ใบหุ้มปก.

Exhibition history.

“TANG CHANG THE ORIGINAL, THE ORIGINAL TANG CHANG!” Artist’s Collection of 400 Selected Self-Portraits (1954–1987) [“จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง ก็คือ จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง” ภาพใบหน้าตัวเอง 400 ชิ้น]. The Mercury Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand. March 21–April 9, 2000.

Annotations for selected works.

Medium uncertain. May be oil and impasto medium on canvas. White sticker label affixed to the left side of the frame.

Untitled
1977 CA
File Number: 9915