In search of the uncontroversial nude: Liu Kang’s modernist pursuit in Nanyang

Figures & data

Figure 1. Liu Kang, Artist and Model, 1954, Oil on canvas, 84 × 124 cm. Gift of Shell Companies in Singapore, Collection of National Gallery Singapore. Image courtesy of National Heritage Board, Singapore.

Figure 2. Children’s collage of Artist and Model at the Keppel Centre for Art Education, a gallery for children, Ground floor, National Gallery Singapore. Photo by Yvonne Low, 2023.

Figure 3. Full page reproduction of painting, Masks (1953). Reproduced from the exhibition catalogue Bali: Liu Kang, Chen Wen Hsi, Chen Chong Swee, Cheong Soo Pieng (1953).

Figure 4. (a) and (b) Peter De Cruz ‘Local Artists At Work’, The Free Press, 16 November 1953, p. 8–9. Reprinted with permission, SPH Media Limited.

Figure 5. Audience viewing the Bali Exhibition. Digitised by National Gallery Singapore Library & Archive, with kind permission from Cheong Leng Guat.

Figure 6. Liu Kang, Nude, 1996, Pastel on paper, 70 × 50 cm. Gift of the artist’s family, Collection of National Gallery Singapore. Image courtesy of National Heritage Board, Singapore.

Figure 7. Liu Kang, Bathers, 1997, Oil on canvas, 118 × 169 cm. Gift of the artist's family, Collection of National Gallery Singapore. Image courtesy of National Heritage Board, Singapore.

Bali: Liu Kang, Chen Wen Hsi, Chen Chong Swee, Cheong Soo Pieng. 1953. Exhibition catalogue [publishing details unknown].

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De Cruz, Peter. 1953. “Local Artists at Work.” The Free Press, November 16.

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