Gallery
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Orchids (c. 1940)
Size: 14cm
Medium: Oil on ceramics
Collection: Private collection. -
Portrait of Ms Jenny (1939)
Size: unknown
Medium: Oil on canvas
A portrait of a Cantonese dance hostess from Singapore, painted by Xu with the commission from the then-vice-consul of Belgium to Singapore. -
Portrait of Lim Loh (1927)
Size: 116 x 77 cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection of the Lim Loh Family estate
In 1927, Xu was introduced by his good friend, Huang Manshi to well-known Singaporean businessman Lim Cheng Gee (林志义), also known as Lim Loh (林路). Xu was commissioned to paint the portraits for Lim and his family who ran successful businesses in brick and biscuit manufacturing in Singapore. Lim was better known as the father of war hero Lim Bo Seng, who was his eleventh child. -
Portrait Of Young Lady (1940)
Size: 82 x 54cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
This portrait, completed in JiangXia Tang (江夏堂) in Singapore, was of Ms Christina Li HuiWang, who later became the first wife of Asian movie mogul Dato Loke Wan Tho. -
Portrait of Madam Cheng (1941)
Size: 79.5 x 65cm
Medium: Oil on board
Collection of Dato' Cheong Kai Fu, Ipoh
This portrait was painted by Xu in Ipoh in 1941, when Madam Cheng was 92 years old. She was the mother of the late Cheong Chee (1885-1954), a wealthy Chinese tin miner and philanthropist in Malaya.
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