Portrait of Chia Yew Kay

Malaysian-born Chia Yu Chian (1936-1990) was the first Southeast Asian recipient of a scholarship from the French government to study in Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris (1959-1962). An active participant in the local and regional art scene in the 1950s and 1960s, Chia had exhibited extensively, regionally and internationally in France (1959) and Germany (1960), with his first solo exhibition in Malaysia (1956).‘Portrait of Chia Yew Kay’ is a sensitive portrait of Chia Yew Kay, who was appointed honorary secretary of the Singapore Art Society in 1960, reading a newspaper.

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