Born in China in 1934, Lee Boon Wang is one of Singapore’s foremost oil painters. After graduating from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 1953, Lee became a full-time artist in 1973. In 1982, Lee was awarded the Singapore Distinction Art Award and in 1989, he was the first Singaporean commissioned to paint the Royal Family of Brunei. Up till 2003, Lee has held seven solo exhibitions, and has participated in seven other group exhibitions in Singapore, New York, Moscow and Brunei.This atmospheric work depicts a stretch of Bugis Street before redevelopment transformed the central area of Singapore in the 1970s. A row of night food stalls is depicted here, lined up against the shophouses with its occupants above looking out of the windows at the activities on the street.
