Posted in Happenings on Aug 31st, 2010
It was a colourful razzmatazz in my office yesterday with many staff donning traditional costumes in conjunction with our nation’s 53rd Merdeka celebration today. BTW were you around when the then Malaya gained her Independence on 31 August 1957? Malaysia is still a young nation, lol.
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Puspa in a somewhat contemplative pose
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Posted in Yong Mun Sen on Aug 19th, 2010
I really love this painting (1951) by my grandpa … simplicity and his trademark brush strokes. It’s unframed and was recently put up for sale on the Internet by its UK-based owner. My grandpa was a prolific painter and his paintings are found in various countries, particularly in the Commonwealth countries.
Posted in Yong Mun Sen on Aug 17th, 2010
This painting was recently put up on in the UK for GBP500 - a good bargain for a work by my grandpa Yong Mun Sen.
The painting is dated 1953. I can see that the colours look more saturated than his other paintings that I have seen thus far … hmmm, I just wonder!
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Posted in Etcetera on Aug 16th, 2010
What can you do with RM500,000? Buy a dream house or car? Maybe go for a well deserved holiday cruise? But if money is not a concern, why not buy a painting?
Well, someone or an individual representing a corporate recently dished out a cool RM0.55 million for The Dream, painted in 1969 by […]
Posted in Yong Mun Sen on Aug 9th, 2010
This is the Yong Mun Sen oil-on-canvas piece that my uncle didn’t manage to acquire at the Henry Butcher Art Auction. The hammer price was RM34,000 … near to the catalogue estimate price of RM35,000 - RM45,000.
It is an undated work but I reckon Grandpa would have painted it sometime in the 1940s … […]
