Title
Ship
Creator
Year/Period
1960
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Image size: 81.5 x 65.0 cm,
Frame size: 102.5 x 87.0 x 3.0 cm
Frame size: 102.5 x 87.0 x 3.0 cm
Accession No.
2019-00530
Collection of
Credit Line
Collection of National Gallery Singapore
Painted following her return to Singapore from Paris, Ship (1960) demonstrates Lai’s confidence in compositional experimentation. Here, a scene of two docked ships is condensed into a single perspectival plane. The forms of men working on the deck of the nearest ship are simplified into silhouettes within a striking band of green that delineates the mid-ground of the composition, and creates a visual contrast with the dark blue hull of the second ship.
