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Georgette Chen breaks auction record for pioneer S'pore artist with S$2.47mil durian painting

Wednesday, 31 May 2023 | 7:49 PM MYT

Georgette Chen's Still Life With Big Durian (c. 1965) is currently the most expensive painting by a pioneer artist in Singapore to sell at auction. - CHRISTIE'S IMAGES LIMITED 2023

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): For the third time in less than a year, painter Georgette Chen (1906-1993) has broken her own auction record.

More impressively, her Still Life With Big Durian (c. 1965) has set a record price for a pioneer artist from Singapore.

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