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Mar. 18, 2008
Mother, child and two women
Est: $500,000 - $600,000
Park Sookeun (1914-1965) Mother, child and two women Signed in hangul, Sookeun Inscribed on verso in Roman letters, Park Soo Keun 1964 and in hangul, Park Sookeun Oil and mixed media on board, original frame 9 5/8 x 5 7/8in. (24.5 x 15cm.)
Christie's
Mar. 18, 2008
Coming home from market
Est: $400,000 - $500,000
Park Sookeun (1914-1965) Coming home from market Signed in hangul, Sookeun Inscribed on verso in Roman letters, Park Soo Keun 1965 and in hangul, Park Sookeun Oil and mixed media on board, original frame 8 1/16 x 14 1/8in. (20.5 x 36cm.)
Christie's
Mar. 20, 2007
Market
Est: $800 - $1,200
Park Sookeun (1914-1965) Market Woodcut, n.d., from a posthumous edition, unnumbered 8 x 11 5/8in. (20.3 x 29.7cm.)
Christie's
Sep. 21, 2006
Park Sookeun (1914-1965)
Est: $800 - $1,200
Tiger Woodcut, n.d., a posthumous edition, sealed Sookeun, inscribed in pencil 75. 10/10 8 3/8 x 11 3/8in. (21.3 x 29cm.)
Christie's
Sep. 21, 2006
Park Sookeun (1914-1965)
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Merchant Woodcut, n.d., a posthumous edition, sealed Sookeun inscribed in pencil 75. 10/10 11 9/16 x 6in. (29.5 x 15.2cm.)
Christie's
Sep. 21, 2006
Park Sookeun (1914-1965)
Est: $800 - $1,200
Kite flying Woodcut, n.d., a posthumous edition, sealed Sookeun 5 x 3 13/16in. (12.7 x 8.7cm.)
Christie's
Sep. 21, 2006
Park Sookeun (1914-1965)
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Two seated figures Woodcut, sealed Sookeun, n.d., a posthumous edition, unnumbered Unframed 10 13/16 x 16 5/8in. (27.5 x 42.3cm.)
Christie's
Sep. 21, 2006
Park Sookeun (1914-1965)
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
The ten signs of long life (Shipjangsaeng) Woodcut, n.d., a posthumous edition, unnumbered 10 3/8 x 6 7/8in. (26.3 x 17.5cm.)
Christie's
Sep. 21, 2006
Park Sookeun (1914-1965)
Est: $800 - $1,200
Dancers Woodcut, n.d., a posthumous edition, sealed Sookeun and numbered 20/30 8 7/16 x 7 1/16in. (21.5 x 18cm.)
Christie's
Sep. 21, 2006
Park Sookeun (1914-1965)
Est: $800 - $1,200
Figures with pagoda Woodcut, sealed Sookeun, n,d., a posthumous edition, numbered 29/30 11 1/8 x 8 3/4 in. (28.2 x 22.3cm.) Framed and glazed
Christie's
Sep. 21, 2006
Park Sookeun (1914-1965)
Est: $800 - $1,200
Two women with tree Woodcut, sealed Sookeun, n.d., a posthumous edition, unnumbered 8 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (21.5 x 28.5cm.) Unframed
Christie's
Sep. 21, 2006
Park Sookeun (1914-1965)
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Three figures with large tree Woodcut, n.d., a posthumous edition, unnumbered Unframed 17 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (44.3 x 32.5cm.)
Christie's
Nov. 17, 2004
Park Sookeun (1914-1965): Selling by the Roadside
Est: $300,000 - $500,000
Oil and mixed media on canvas, framed; depicting three women in traditional clothing and slippers seated amid a collapsible table and two round baskets filled with produce, the lower right corner signed in hangul Sookeun; the painted wood frame also inscribed in ink on the right side Park Sookeun in hangul and affixed on the top with two typewritten exhibition tags from the San Francisco Museum of Art documenting its inclusion in the 1957 exhibition entitled Art in Asia and the West held from October 28 to December 1, 1957. Dimensions 12 1/2 x 16in (32 x 40.8cm) Provenance: ex-collection Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Zimmerman, Daly City, California Published and exhibited: San Francisco Museum of Art, Art in Asia and the West (San Francico, 1957), listed p. 38, the dedication of the exhibition to UNESCO listed on p.1 Literature: Oh Kwangsoo and Yi Guyul, Park Soo-Keun (Seoul, Chun Jaegook, 1995), catalogue section, p.197, letter dated 1957.11.25 from Mrs. Margaret G. Miller to Park Sookeun mentioning the Zimmerman painting she saw in the San Francisco exhibition; Han'guk kundai hoehwa sonjip (The Collection of Modern Korean Paintings), vol. 6 entitled 'Western Painting 6: Park Soo-keun' (Seoul, Kumsung Publishing Co., 1990), pp.83, 90 and 128-129. Note: In the past ten years, Park Soo-keun has become the most sought-after modern Korean artist. As indicated above, this important work has been discussed in a number of Korean publications on the artist, but never illustrated. Its provenance from the Zimmerman collection is also documented in Korean publications; but this appears to be the first time that the painting itself has surfaced in public view since it was exhibited in 1957. Lee Ku-yeol in his article on the artist (see 'Western Painting 6: Park Soo-keun'), notes the irony that the artist was rejected at the Korean National Art exhibition in 1957 yet was afforded a high evaluation by American collectors such as the Zimmermans [and the Millers]. Certainly the painter himself - who was to become known as the 'painter of ordinary people (sominui hwaga) - must have valued 'Selling by the Roadside' because he adapted its quiet arrangement of figures for another painting of smaller scale executed in 1960 (see Park Soo-keun [1995], raisonnee section, unnumbered p.67, dimensions 19 x 33cm). Both, in turn, mirror his signed but undated early drawing of a solitary country woman seated in front of a basket (ibid. unnumbered p. 203).
Bonhams
Mar. 23, 2004
Park Sookeun (1914-1965)
Est: $400,000 - $500,000
Seated woman and jar Signed in hangul, Sookeun Inscribed on verso in hangul, Park Sookeun and in Roman letters Sookeun, Park 1962 Mixed media on canvas, framed 25 1/2 x 20 3/4 in. (64.8 x 52.7cm.)
Christie's
Sep. 16, 2003
Park Sookeun (1914-1965)
Est: $250,000 - $300,000
Park Sookeun (1914-1965) Three women seated in the marketplace Signed in hangul, Sookeun Mixed media on board 8 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. (21 x 46.4cm.)
Christie's
Sep. 18, 2002
Park Sookeun (1914-1965)
Est: $100,000 - $150,000
Woman pounding grain Signed in hangul, Sookeun Oil on canvas, framed 13 x 81/4in. (33 x 21cm.) A paper label on the stretcher is dated July 1956 NOTES Sookeun's work was widely appreciated by Americans stationed in Seoul after the Korean War. Now it is prized by Korean collectors and museums as well. The Bando Gallery in the Choson Hotel in Seoul began exhibiting his paintings in 1956, selling them for a nominal sum to clients who were predominately Americans. His paintings were exhibited at the World House Gallery in New York in 1958. The artist's career was cut short by his premature death at the age of fifty-one in 1965. During the past nine years, since Christie's New York began selling his work, he has become the most sought-after modern Korean master. Twelve paintings by Park Sookeun have been sold at Christie's: Farmers, 27 April, 1993, lot 45; Dancers, 17 Novermber, 1993, lot 121; Woman beneath a tree, 27 April, 1994, lot 101; Country village, 25 October, 1994, lot 78; Three woman and child, 26 April, 1995, lot 77; Farmhouses, 26 March, 1996, lot 67; Men smoking, 31 October, 1996, lot 110; The jobless, 23 March, 1999, lot 311 and 15 October, 2001, lot 333; Mother and child, 15 September, 1999, lot 384; Four women and child, 23 March, 2000, lot 379; Mother and child walking under trees, 19 September, 2000, lot 410; Winter, 22 March, 2002, lot 223.
Christie's
Oct. 15, 2001
Park Sookeun (1914-1965)
Est: $150,000 - $180,000
The Jobless, 1961 Signed in hangul, Sookeun Oil and mixed media on board, framed 15 7/8 x 8 1/4in. (40 x 21cm.) PROVENANCE University of Alaska Museum, sold Christie's, New York, Japanese and Korean Art, 23 March 1999, lot 311 EXHIBITION SAC Library, Yongsan, 1962.2 NOTES Eleven paintings by Park Sookeun have been sold at Christie's: Farmers, 27 April, 1993, lot 45; Dancers, 17 November, 1993, lot 121; Woman beneath a tree, 27 April, 1994, lot 101; Country village, 25 October, 1994, lot 78; Three women and child, 26 April, 1995, lot 77; Farmhouses, 26 March, 1996, lot 67; Men smoking, 31 October, 1996, lot 110; The Jobless, 23 March 1999, lot 311; Mother and child, 15 September, 1999, lot 384; Four women and child, 23 March, 2000, lot 379; Mother and child walking under trees, 19 September, 2000, lot 410.
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