WU GUANZHONG (1919-2010)

Ever since the exhibition Painting by Wu Guanzhong at the National Museum of Singapore in 1988, Wu Guanzhong forged an indissoluble bond with Singapore. With the success of the exhibition, numerous art galleries actively promoted Wu Guanzhong’s works in Singapore, making his works widely recognized and collected by local collectors. In May 1990, Wu was invited to Singapore to attend the opening of Wu Guanzhong’s Watercolour and Gouache Paintings, and gave lectures. The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation interviewed and filmed him for a documentary entitled “Unbroken Kite String”, which was telecast in “Tuesday Special” in July. The interview took place at Changi Beach. The seaside scenery came into his view, and it became one of the few Singapore scenery Wu depicted as the subject of his paintings. In addition to this one, there is one other smaller piece of this subject entitled “A Seaside Scene of Changi of Singapore”, which is published in The Complete Works of Wu Guanzhong VI (page 323).