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Tan Thean Song works mainly in the batik medium, although he also paints in watercolours and Chinese ink. His batiks follow the usual themes of Mother and Child, rural life, and this 1971 work has a muted backdrops with the typical cracking-line technique and a small bottom part given to pointillism. It shows three women, clad in only a sarong, fussing over their babies. One standing is cradling the baby to sleep or maybe suckling the baby, while the other on the left is rocking hers in a cloth swing cradle. Tan studied at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art in Singapore and won the 2nd Prize (Batik) in the 1969 Salon Malaysia with Flying Kite, which is now in the collection of the National Art Gallery Malaysia. Tan also won 1st Prize in the Malayan Young Artists competition in 1964. He took part in the Adelaide Expo when Georgetown and Adelaide sealed their ‘sister cities’ relationship in 1974. 73 x 48.5cm