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b. Sarawak, 1896 - d. 1962
Yong Mun Sen
A Horse Carriage, Malacca
1953
signed ‘Mun Sen 1953’ bottom right
watercolour on paper
49 x 64cm
Provenance
Private collector, Penang; acquired directly from artist’s family. One of the 148 works listed in the collection of Yao Chew Mooi (Yong Mun Sen’s widow) which were appraised by London firm Spink & Son.
Estimate
RM 18,000 – 30,000
Price Realised
RM 27,500
ILLUSTRATED
Page 75, Yong Mun Sen Retrospective 1999 (Dr Tan Chong Guan, Penang State Art Gallery)
The title is self-explanatory and records a more luxurious mode of transport in the pre-Merdeka years where Malacca, a Straits Settlement enclave, was bustling with more economic life. The artist caught the horse at feeding time, fortifying itself for the task ahead, with the seated carriage driver waiting patiently behind. This is one of 148 works listed in the collection of Yao Chew Mooi, Yong Mun Sen’s widow, which were appraised by London firm Spink & Son.
