Yong Cheng Wah Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Yong Cheng Wah Art Value Price Guide

Aug. 18, 2024
YONG KHENG WAH : Market Scene, 1994
Est: RM1,000 - RM2,500
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KLAS Art Auction
Aug. 18, 2024
YONG KHENG WAH : Fishermen with view of Kedah Peak, 1970
Est: RM1,500 - RM3,000
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KLAS Art Auction
Jan. 16, 2023
Kheng Wah Yong, Bali (1942/43-2017), Mother & Child 1974, Batik
Est: $400 - $600
Kheng Wah Yong Bali ((1942/43-2017)) Mother & Child 1974 Batik Signed & dated lower left
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
Oct. 31, 2022
Kheng Wah Yong, Bali (1942/43-2017), Mother & Child 1974, Batik
Est: $400 - $600
Kheng Wah Yong Bali, (1942/43-2017) Mother & Child 1974 Batik Signed & dated lower left
Theodore Bruce Auctioneers & Valuers
Aug. 28, 2022
YONG KHENG WAH : Fishermen with view of Kedah Peak, 1970
Est: RM1,500 - RM3,500
Yong Cheng Wah is the son of legendary artist Yong Mun Sen, who was also known as a prominent figure in the Malaysian visual arts scene. His works have been collected nationwide and internationally by the National Art Gallery of Malaysia, Bank Negara, the French National bank, Paul Getty as well as Malaysia’s first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman. His early batik artworks are a testament to his extraordinary skills in manipulating the medium with his signature technique, as what can be seen in this beautiful piece.
KLAS Art Auction
Feb. 20, 2022
YONG KHENG WAH : Kedah Peak from Feringghi, Penang, 1970
Est: RM1,000 - RM3,000
Yong Kheng Wah is the son of legendary artist Yong Mun Sen, who was also known as a prominent figure in the Malaysian visual arts scene. His works have been collected nationwide and internationally by the National Art Gallery of Malaysia, Bank Negara, the French National bank, Paul Getty as well as Malaysia’s first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman. His early batik artworks are a testament to his extraordinary skills in manipulating the medium with his signature technique, as what can be seen in this beautiful piece.
KLAS Art Auction
Feb. 20, 2022
YONG CHENG WAH : Untitled
Est: RM2,000 - RM4,000
Yong Cheng Wah was a prominent figure in the Malaysian visual arts scene. He was the son of legendary artist, Yong Mun Sen. Other than hosting solo exhibits around the world, his works are collected by the National Art Gallery of Malaysia, Bank Negara, the French National bank, Paul Getty and Malaysia’s first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman. His success earned him a three-time feature on the Who’s Who in Art list and numerous prizes for art. In 1972, he started a joint venture with an American partner and founded the well- known Craft Batik in Malaysia. His early batik artworks along with oil and watercolour paintings are a testament to his extraordinary skills in manipulating the medium with his signature technique. His works are often a piece of his memory or knowledge of the local culture and secluded areas of his home country. He used the post expressionism style as shown in his use of bright colours with emotive charge much like the great Van Gogh.
KLAS Art Auction
Mar. 28, 2021
YONG CHENG WAH : Ploughing, 1964
Est: RM1,800 - RM3,800
Yong Cheng Wah was a prominent figure in the Malaysian visual arts scene. He was the son of legendary artist, Yong Mun Sen. Other than hosting solo exhibits around the world, his works are collected by the National Art Gallery of Malaysia, Bank Negara, the French National bank, Paul Getty and Malaysia’s first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman. His success earned him a threetime feature on the Who’s Who in Art list and numerous prizes for art. In 1972, he started a joint venture with an American partner and founded the well-known Craft Batik in Malaysia. His early batik artworks along with oil and watercolour paintings are a testament to his extraordinary skills in manipulating the medium with his signature technique. His works are often a piece of his memory or knowledge of the local culture and secluded areas of his home country. He used the post expressionism style as shown in his use of bright colours with emotive charge much like the great Van Gogh. A similar subject as this work was painted by the late Father of Malaysian Batik, Datuk Cheah Thean Teng.
KLAS Art Auction
Feb. 07, 2021
YONG CHENG WAH : Untitled
Est: RM2,500 - RM5,000
Yong Cheng Wah was a prominent figure in the Malaysian visual arts scene. He was the son of legendary artist, Yong Mun Sen. Other than hosting solo exhibits around the world, his works are collected by the National Art Gallery of Malaysia, Bank Negara, the French National bank, Paul Getty and Malaysia’s first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman. His success earned him a three-time feature on the Who’s Who in Art list and numerous prizes for art. In 1972, he started a joint venture with an American partner and founded the well- known Craft Batik in Malaysia. His early batik artworks along with oil and watercolour paintings are a testament to his extraordinary skills in manipulating the medium with his signature technique. His works are often a piece of his memory or knowledge of the local culture and secluded areas of his home country. He used the post expressionism style as shown in his use of bright colours with emotive charge much like the great Van Gogh.
KLAS Art Auction
Feb. 07, 2021
YONG KHENG WAH : Fishermen With View of Kedah Peak, 1970
Est: RM7,000 - RM15,000
Yong Cheng Wah is the son of legendary artist Yong Mun Sen, who was also known as a prominent figure in the Malaysian visual arts scene. His works have been collected nationwide and internationally by the National Art Gallery of Malaysia, Bank Negara, etc. His early batik artworks are a testament to his extraordinary skills in manipulating the medium with his signature technique, as what can be seen in this beautiful piece.
KLAS Art Auction
Feb. 07, 2021
YONG CHENG WAH : Fishermen, 1964
Est: RM500 - RM750
Born in 1943 in Penang, Yong Cheng Wah was a prominent figure in the Malaysian visual arts scene as he was the son of legendary artist, Yong Mun Sen. Other than hosting solo exhibits around the world, his works are collected by the National Art Gallery of Malaysia, Bank Negara, the French National bank, Paul Getty and Malaysia’s first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman. His success earned him a threetime feature on the Who’s Who in Art list and numerous prizes for art. In 1972, he started a joint venture with an American partner and founded the well- known Craft Batik in Malaysia. Just like this particular piece, his works are often a piece of his memory or knowledge of the local culture and secluded areas of his home country.
KLAS Art Auction
Dec. 13, 2020
YONG CHENG WAH : Kedah Peak from Feringghi, Penang, 1970
Est: RM7,000 - RM12,000
Yong Cheng Wah was a prominent figure in the Malaysian visual arts scene. He was the son of legendary artist, Yong Mun Sen. Other than hosting solo exhibits around the world, his works are collected by the National Art Gallery of Malaysia, Bank Negara, the French National bank, Paul Getty and Malaysia’s first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman. His success earned him a three-time feature on the Who’s Who in Art list and numerous prizes for art. In 1972, he started a joint venture with an American partner and founded the well-known Craft Batik in Malaysia. His early batik artworks along with oil and watercolour paintings are a testament to his extraordinary skills in manipulating the medium with his signature technique. His works are often a piece of his memory or knowledge of the local culture and secluded areas of his home country. He used the post expressionism style as shown in his use of bright colours with emotive charge much like the great Van Gogh.
KLAS Art Auction
Nov. 15, 2020
Yong Cheng Wah (b. Penang, 1942 – d. Pahang, 2017) Unwind By The Paddy Field, 1984
Est: RM3,800 - RM6,800
Yong Cheng Wah had consummated a wispy fusion of the East and the West with the mock ink blotches ala Pollock in this acrylic work of paddy farmers toiling in the fields shown in atmospheric veneer. The best known artist son of the legendary pioneer Yong Mun Sen, Cheng Wah developed his father’s skills in watercolours, but also made a name for himself in batik painting which had seen him getting sponsored solos in Manila (ABC Art Gallery), the United States: Honolulu (Dwyer Art Gallery), Miami (Bacardi Art Gallery) and New York (Markus Art Gallery), Berlin (People for Progress Building), Hong Kong (Jackson Art Gallery), Australia: Sydney (Little Art Gallery), Melbourne (Elizabeth Art Gallery and Canberra (Canberra Art Gallery), among others. He had also set up a batik gallery in two venues in Penang over time, apart from a personal gallery in Hong Kong in 1969. This work came after a period of soul-searching and meditation during a hiatus from 1978. His art philosophy can be summed up in a 1986 statement: “Art is a religion to me as it penetrates the truth and reviews the true nature of things as they truly are and to be shared by others.” He could not paint after a stroke and in 2015, held his last exhibition at the Dreamz Gallery in Penang, of his remaining watercolours. Cheng Wah is regarded as self-taught although he had studied at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore but stopped midway when his father, Mun Sen, died in 1962. He held his first solo in Penang and Bangkok in 1963, as his father was dead against any of his 11 children taking up art. In his early career, he was mentored by Lee Joo For and Father Joseph McNally (St Xavier’s Institution). His works are in the collection of Tunku Abdul Rahman, the first Permaisuri Agong, former US president Lyndon B. Johnson, Paul Getty and former Indonesian president Suharto. Apart from reviving the Mun Sen Gallery in Penang and then Kuala Lumpur for a spell, he also dabbled in off-shore financing.
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