Title
Self Portrait
Creator
Year/Period
c. 1943
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Technique
Dimension
Image size: 27.0 x 21.5 cm
Accession No.
2025-01344
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of an anonymous donor
Born in China in 1906, Georgette Chen Li Ying received her art education in Paris, New York as well as in Shanghai. Chen’s artistic oeuvre can be divided into three phases, her time in France (1927-1933); China and Hong Kong (1934-1948); and Malaya and Singapore (1949-1980). Immensely inspired by her surroundings she produced still lifes, portraits and landscapes from each phase. Settling in Singapore in 1954, she taught at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts till her retirement in 1980. Regarded as a leading artist of Singapore associated with Nanyang art, she was awarded the Cultural Medallion in 1982. Chen passed away in 1993 in Singapore.