Lot 5224: Kim Heung-Sou (Kimsou, b. 1919) Seated figure

Seated figure
Oil on canvas, framed; depicting a seated young woman wearing a red dress, the lower left signed in Chinese Kim Heung-Sou above the Roman letters H.S; the reverse, signed with the same Chinese characters and in Roman script Heung-Soo Kim 1954 beneath a Chinese inscription possibly reading Tobul kobyol jeonchul pum (item for Tobul farewell exhibition)
(paint flaking, tiny puncture).
23 3/4 x 14 3/4in (60.5 x 37.5cm)

This small composition was painted before the artist left for Paris in 1955. For a larger work from the same exhibition, held from 1-11 October 1954, see Han'guk kundae hoehwa sonjip, volume 26 Kim Hung-sou/Moon Hak-jin (1990), pp. 114 and 151.