Lot 30 | 27 November 2022

 

 

LOT 30

TONG CHIN SYE

B. China, 1939

Market in Boat Quay, Singapore

Signed Tong on lower right

Watercolour on paper

37 x 51 cm

Private Collection, USA

RM 10,000 – 18,000

Born in Singapore, Tong Chin Sye is a renowned multi-media artist trained in both Western and Chinese art. His dynamic oeuvre includes watercolour, oil, Chinese ink and mixed media paintings. Chin Sye was previously a part-time lecturer in Western Art at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and has participated in numerous local and overseas exhibitions over the years. He clinched the first prize in the Port of Singapore Authority Open Art Competition in 1987 and represented Singapore at the Flemish Watercolour Days held at Zaventen, Belgium in 1988.