NGWE GAING (BURMESE 1901-1967)

NGWE GAING (BURMESE 1901-1967)

PEOPLE GOING BACK FROM THE BAZAAR AT TAVOY, MYANMAR
signed Ngwe Gaing lower right; inscribed People going back from the bazaar at Tavoy - the town where the artist lives on the reverse in pencil
watercolour on card
19 x 27.5cm
unframed

Property from a Private Collection, Hampstead

Provenance
Hans Feibusch, Hampstead
By descent from the above to the present owner

Dawei (formerly Tavoy) is a city in south-eastern Myanmar and is the capital of the Tanintharyi region (formerly the Tenasserim Division) on the eastern bank of the Dawei River Canal.

The Tenasserim coast was ceded to the British after the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826). After independence in 1948, the city became part of the Tenasserim Division which also included today's Mon State. In 1974, Mon State was carved out of Tenasserim and Dawei became the capital of the truncated division. In 1989, the city's English name was changed from Tavoy to Dawei, and Tenasserim became Tanintharyi.