May Oon, Portrait of Lee Kuan Yew, 2009
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$11,000.00
Charcoal on paper
84 x 59 cm, 114 x 89 x 4 cm (framed)
84 x 59 cm, 114 x 89 x 4 cm (framed)
Exhibited: “Father of Modern Singapore”, Evil Empires, Singapore, November 2010.
Condition: Very good
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May Oon was a journalist in Singapore and in Hong Kong. She started painting at 40, and exclusively works with oil and charcoal.
“I often use photographs as the source or object of my paintings. Transforming photographs into paintings seems to allow me to create tension and ambiguity, as well as to suggest a whole range of meanings and narratives.”
Nostalgia can also be said to underlie Oon’s works, as seen by her first show which featured Peranakan culture in the past, or her paintings of the Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew in the 60s to the 70s.
(Photographed October 2023)
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