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Malaysian artist’s works scattered around the world after his death go on show in Hong Kong




A coterie of art world movers and shakers gathered recently in the penthouse of the Malaysia Building in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai district for the opening of an exhibition of a relatively obscure artist from the Malaysian state of Penang called Yong Mun Sen.Yong, who died in 1962, was born 125 years ago to descendants of Chinese immigrants in Kuching, Sarawak. He was sent at the age of five to Taipu (Dabu) in China’s Guangdong province, where his ancestors hailed from, to study Chinese painting and…



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