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A Park Soo-keun comes up for sale

30-Sep-08

A Park Soo-keun comes up for sale

"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 (Korean buyers hit by chaos on the markets, 27 Sept 2008) in its report from the Korean International Art Fair last week. "Visitors were thin on the ground, and buyers even rarer." Let's hope the current financial turmoil doesn't dim the appeal of one of Korea's most popular artists, Park Soo-keun. Having been in private hands since its original purchase in 1956, Park's painting of a ...
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New record price for Korean painting

29-May-07
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 x 72 cm) The previous record was for Park Soo-keun's "Woman at a Marketplace" (24.9 x 62.4 cm) which sold for W2.5 billion at K Auction in March: Park's paintings are also in demand internationally. His "Leisure Time" fetched $1.128 million at Christie's in New York on 24 March 2003, according to the International Herald Tribune, just exceeded a year later by his "Seated Woman and Jar" ...
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