Posted in Yong Mun Sen on Mar 14th, 2011
Although my grandpa was better known for his water colour paintings, he also used oil paint as a medium. The Woman - oil on board (35cm x 20cm) - was done in 1940; priced at RM25,000.
This beautiful piece is untitled (1953) is going for RM40,000. It depicts 3 workers unloading goods from a boat […]
Posted in Yong Mun Sen on Sep 1st, 2010
My Grandpa painted this piece of the Bank of China building in Singapore in the early 1950s. Rising 18 floors (auspicious height!), it was at that time the tallest building in Raffles Place, the island city’s central business district. Designed by P&T Architects & Engineers Ltd, this ’skyscraper’, located on Battery Road, […]
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!
Postscript […]
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 … […]
