Burmese Oil Painting ‘Sule Pagoda in the Monsoon’ by Mya Thaung

This beautiful oil-on-canvas Impressionist-like rendering of Sule Pagoda in Rangoon during a monsoonal downpour is by Mya Thaung.

It is signed ‘Mya Thaung’ in the bottom right corner.

Mya Thaung was born in 1943 in Bogalay. He studied at the State School of Fine Art in Rangoon from 1965 to 1967. His works have been shown in exhibitions in Korea, Japan, Singapore and Australia.

Dr Elizabeth Moore mentioned Mya Thaung’s architectural studies as particularly noteworthy in her seminal 1992 article on contemporary Burmese painters.

The painting here is in excellent condition. It was acquired in Burma in the late 1990s.