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Another Park Soo-keun under the hammer

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by Philip Gowman on 16 September, 2009

in Christie's, Events news, General arts news, Park Soo-keun

It seems to be a quite frequent event nowadays: a work by one of Korea’s most popular and most expensive modern artists comes up for sale in a US saleroom. And so it is that another Park Soo-keun comes under the hammer at Christie’s New York tomorrow, with an estimated price tag of up to [...]

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A Park Soo-keun comes up for sale

30 September 2008 General arts news
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“80% of Korean art buyers are pure speculators”, says Juhl Joohyun Lee, director of Arario Gallery. And with Lee Kun-hee having stepped down from the chairmanship of Samsung and allegations flying that an illegal slush fund was used to buy works for his wife’s Leeum museum, Samsung has stopped buying art. So says the FT [...]

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New record price for Korean painting

29 May 2007 General arts news

Every few months there’s another news item in the Korean press about a new domestic record price paid at auction for a Korean painting. And each time, the artist is Park Soo-keun (Bak Su-geun, 박수근) (1914-1965).
The most recent record was set this month (22 May), at W4.52bn:

Park Soo-keun: A Wash Place (Oil on canvas, 37 [...]

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