Taiwanese singer Jay Chou has shocked netizens after spending millions on a painting by French artist Henri Matisse.<\/p>\n
According to reports from Taiwanese media outlets including Mirror Media, the 47-year-old purchased an oil painting created in 1924, titled\u00a0The Morning Session, for a whopping US$20 million (S$25.6 million).<\/p>\n
It is believed that he acquired the artwork through Sotheby\u2019s \u2013 one of the world\u2019s largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewellery and collectibles.<\/p>\n
In an Instagram post on May 20, Chou expressed his admiration for Matisse, recalling that when he was in Nice, France, he would often stand outside the Frenchman\u2019s former home, a luxury apartment within the historic hotel Regina, looking up at the balcony by the window.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d imagine him standing there too someday, staring out at the sunlight over Nice, lost in thought, before walking back into his studio to continue creating,\u201d Chou wrote in English.<\/p>\n
The Mandopop icon added that he used to dream about one day being able to collect one of the post-Impressionist artist\u2019s works: \u201cNever thought that today, the dream would actually come true.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chou is known to be an avid art collector, with works in his collection from artists such as Pablo Picasso and Jean-Michel Basquiat.<\/p>\n
He previously revealed in an interview with CNN that a large portion of his concert earnings go to buying\u00a0artworks.<\/p>\n
The singer is scheduled to perform in Singapore from Jan 8 to 10, 2027, at the National Stadium as part of his new Carnival II World Tour.\u00a0THE STAR\/ASIA NEWS NETWORK<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taiwanese singer Jay Chou has shocked netizens after spending millions on a painting by French artist Henri Matisse.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-690511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}