ID 1399755
Lot 826 | RHEE SEUNDJA (1918-2009)
Estimate value
CNY 2 800 000 – 4 800 000
La louve (The Wolf)
signed and dated '63 SEUND JA RHEE' (lower right);
oil on canvas
130.4 x 97.1 cm. (51 3/8 x 38 1/4 in.)
Painted in 1963
Provenance
Private collection
Tajan Paris, 24 April 2012, lot 122
Private collection
K Auction Seoul, 20 June 2012, lot 8
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
Seund Ja Rhee, exh.cat., Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1968 (listed, p.11; illustrated, p.26).
Seundja Rhee's Abstract Painting 1957-1968, exh.cat., Maronie Books, Seoul, 2018 (illustrated, p.47&401).
Rhee Seundja: Road to the Antipodes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, exh.cat., Bartomeu MARI, Gwacheon-si, 2018 (illustrated, p.95 & 260).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Seund Ja Rhee, May-June 1968.
Gwacheon-si, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, The 100th anniversary of Birth Seund Ja Rhee: Road to the Antipodes, 22 March - 29 July 2018.
Seoul, Gallery Hyundai, Seundja Rhee's Abstract Painting 1957-1968, 6 September - 7 October 2018.
| Artist: | Seund Ja Rhee (1918 - 2009) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Seund Ja Rhee (1918 - 2009) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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