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Provenance
With Martyn Gregory, London.
Exhibited
London, Martyn Gregory, Merchants & Mariners, 2018, no. 96, catalogue 98.
London, Martyn Gregory, The Philippines and South-East Asia, paintings and drawings by Eastern and Western artists 1800-1950, 2019, no. 86, catalogue 99.
Leng Joon Wong was born in China in 1947 and moved to Singapore at the age of 9, where he lived and studied; graduating from Singapore's Nanyang Academy of Fine Art in 1964. Five years later, he became a founding member of the Singapore Watercolour Society, whose work laid emphasis on topographical scenes of Southeast Asia and fast-disappearing urban landscapes. Several of the artists involved with the society were Chinese born migrants and their Western-influenced technique was dubbed by some critics as 'the Nanyang style'. Leng's subjects include attap buildings, street markets, traditional river craft and shophouses.