Title
Not titled (Self-Portrait)
Creator
Year/Period
1937
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Frame size: 40.4 x 34.8 x 2.4 cm,
Image size: 34.0 x 29.3 cm
Image size: 34.0 x 29.3 cm
Accession No.
2022-00940
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Chang Si Fun (Shewin Chang), daughter of the artist
Tchang is in a beret with suspenders, fashioning himself as a modern man in sync with the current fashion. This work is likely to be made in France, when Tchang was studying in France in the 1920s or when he made a return trip in the 1930s. Tchang was an intellectual, a critic and editor, an educator as well as a social “leader” and pivotal member of key art agencies and communities such as Society of Chinese Artists. A critic and activist against the Japanese Occupation of China and subsequently Singapore, Tchang was killed in 1942 during the Sook Ching Operation.
