Trained as a surgeon on the cusp of the arrival of anesthesia, he was horrified by the blood and violence of medicine, and when he set up his own practice he acted as more of a prescribing apothecary ...

His paintings now sell for up to US$28,000 (RM126,234). And on Dec 14, a solo exhibition of his work opened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, comprising 22 paintings made since 2015.