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Winter Landscape is an early work of Yeo’s prefiguring important aspects of his later oeuvre: colour and abstraction. The image also encapsulates landscape, which became an important aspect of Yeo’s later work, reflecting his fascination with travel and places. Physical dimensions of original: 1260 x 1000 mm.
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- This digital copy (c) National Library Board Singapore 2008. The original work (c) Thomas Yeo 1965-1966.
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