Fine Chinese Paintings & Works of Art - 1st July 2020
Lot 39
YANG MANSHENG (YONG MUNSEN
Estimate £1,000 - £2,000 | Hammer £2000
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Description
YANG MANSHENG (YONG MUNSEN, MALAYSIA, 1896-1962)
PENANG BEACH
Three Malaysian paintings, ink and colour on paper, all signed Munsen, two dated 1948 and the third dated 1949, each framed and glazed, 27.5cm x 38cm. (3)
Provenance: acquired by the current owner's grandfather, Edmund Gardiner and thence by descent.
Yong Munsen is known as the father of modern Malaysian painting, and one of the founders of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore and then Malaya. In 1922 he moved to Penang, where these paintings were produced.