SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The bereaved family of renowned late painter Chun Kyung-ja has again lost a legal battle to defy the law enforcement authority’s conclusion that “Beautiful Woman,” kept by a national art museum, is one of Chun’s original paintings. The Seoul Central District Court on Friday ruled against Chun’s family, who [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government pushes to fight against art forgery by firming up relevant laws in the wake of a series of high profile art forgery scandals that have hit the country since last year, the culture ministry said Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – “Beautiful Woman,” a famous painting at the center of an intense forgery debate, was drawn with a different style of facial features from that of its supposed painter Chun Kyung-ja, sources within the art circle said Wednesday, citing the results of a French inspection of the work. The claim [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean museum on Friday rejected the results of a French inspection that concluded one of its most famed artworks is fake. The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) argued in a statement that the French art experts Lumiere Technology drew the conclusion based on a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Chun Kyung-ja was one of the most prominent female painters in Korea’s modern art history. She is best known for her portrayal of women and flowers, as shown in her controversial painting “Beautiful Woman”. The controversy began in 1991 when Chun claimed that a painting attributed to her, which [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A famed artist, who has long been rumored to be dead, passed away several months ago, with her daughter having been seen carrying an urn containing the painter’s remains, a head of a local museum said Thursday. Kim Hong-hee, general director of the Seoul Museum of Art, said the [...]