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Korean Artist Kim Tschang-yeul’s Water Drop Painting Fetches 1.4 bln Won in Auction

SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A painting by prolific South Korean artist Kim Tschang-yeul has sold for more than 1.4 billion won (US$1.3 million) in a record for an artwork by the late painter (1929-2021). “CSH I,” one of Kim’s signature water drop paintings from 1978, fetched 9.85 million Hong Kong dollars at an [...]

‘Water Drop’ Artist Kim Tschang-yeul Dies at 91

SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Tschang-yeul, one of South Korea’s greatest modern artists well known for his “water drop” paintings, died Tuesday at the age of 91. The abstract artist was born in Maengsan, a small town in present-day North Korea, in 1929, when the Korean Peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule. He [...]