Lot 76 | 18 August 2024

 

 

LOT 76

CHIA YU CHIAN

B. Johor, 1936 – 1991

Good Morning – Notre Dame Cathedral, 1959

Oil on canvas

43 x 50 cm

Private Collection, Penang

Signed and dated “Yu Chian 1959” on lower right

RM 18,000 – 32,000

Born in Johor in 1936, Chia Yu Chian studied at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore and graduated in 1958. He was known for being the first artist from the Straits Settlement to receive a French Government scholarship at Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris and was commissioned by the Malaysian High Commission in Paris to paint a mural painting called Life in Malaysia. He received a Honourable Mention by the Salon des Independent and Societe des Artistes Francaise.