Matthew Wong

Chinese · 1984–2019 · Painter, Draughtsman

Matthew Wong was a Canadian artist. Self-taught as a painter, Wong received critical acclaim for his work before his death in 2019 at the age of 35. Roberta Smith, co-chief art… (Wikipedia)

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Record prices

  1. Matthew Wong, River at Dusk, 2018, oil on canvasRiver at DuskPhillips · HK$37,760,000≈ $4,871,418≈ £3,622,410≈ €4,009,067Sign up to see
  2. Matthew Wong, Figure in a Night Landscape, 2017, oil on canvasFigure in a Night LandscapePhillips · HK$36,550,000≈ $4,710,199≈ £3,328,997≈ €3,866,523Sign up to see
  3. Matthew Wong, The Road, 2018, oil on canvasThe RoadPhillips · HK$36,145,000≈ $4,604,512≈ £3,729,255≈ €4,229,755Sign up to see

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Matthew Wong was a Canadian artist. Self-taught as a painter, Wong received critical acclaim for his work before his death in 2019 at the age of 35. Roberta Smith, co-chief art critic at The New York Times, has praised Wong as "one of the most talented painters of his generation."

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Born 1984, TorontoDied 2019Occupation Painter, DraughtsmanWikidata Q70018807 ↗ULAN 500487448 ↗

In the collections of

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)Dallas Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of Art

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Artist record compiled from: auction results, Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), The Met Open Access (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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