Singapore Painting Goes For $198K

Singapore artist Aw Tee Hong set a personal record by selling one of his works for that price at a Sotheby's Hong Kong auction.

A painting of the Singapore River by Aw Tee Hong was sold for HK$1.125 million (S$198,000) at a Sotheby's Hong Kong auction on Sunday - setting a personal record for the artist.

The untitled oil on canvas work by the 88-year-old Singapore artist came from a private collection in Singapore.

It went under the hammer at Sotheby's Hong Kong Modern & Contemporary South-east Asian Art Day Sale in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Aw, who is behind The River Merchants bronze sculpture in Raffles Place, uses a variety of media in his practice. He has captured fast-vanishing cityscapes in his work, bearing witness to Singapore's transformation through the years.

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