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About the artwork
In this piece, Lim Tze Peng illustrates the innate human desire to achieve, to push themselves past their limits. With his black confident strokes of Chinese ink juxtaposed against the pure white of rice paper, Lim Tze Peng creates an almost ephemeral scene that fills the mind with a sense of tranquility, nostalgia, and determination characteristic of his works.
About the artist
Born in Singapore in 1921, Lim Tze Peng is one of Singapore’s most significant artists and a living legend. Renowned for his Chinese ink creations of post-independence Singapore, he also practices Chinese calligraphy. Alongside local and international exhibitions, his masterpieces are exhibited in prominent Singapore institutions and part of many prestigious collections. Lim has been bestowed several awards including the Special Prize at the Commonwealth Art Exhibition in England in 1977 and the prestigious Cultural Medallion in Singapore in 2003. In May 2012, he broke records with the sale of his works at a Christies auction in Hong Kong.