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b. Johor, 1936 - d. 1991
Chia Yu Chian
Hawker
1957
signed and dated ‘Yu Chian 1957’ (bottom left)
oil on masonite board
49 x 59cm
Provenance
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur.
Estimate
RM 16,000 – 22,000
Price Realised
RM 35,200
LITERATURE
人文杂志 (The Chinese Cultural Magazine), November 2001 issue, illustrated.
A lovely painting with a dominantly red background, it may well have been influenced by Henri Matisse’s (1869-1954) The Red Studio (1911). This painting represents, to some art critics, the best of Yu Chian’s oeuvre. The shade of the makeshift stall and even the ‘cooling’ suggestion of the ice-scraper provide little if at all relief from the ‘heat’ emanated by the red colour.
Done in the year of Malaya’s independence and before Yu Chian’s formal studies in Paris, the painting is likely to be a bold study of colour relationship with red.
