SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Galleries Association of Korea said Friday it plans to send an official letter to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) concerning the authenticity of four Korean paintings currently on display, the association said Friday. The paintings under suspicion of being forgeries include Park Soo-keun’s “Waikiki” and [...]
GOESAN, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A masterpiece by one of the most representative painters of the Joseon Dynasty has been replicated across a rice field. In May of last year, the Agricultural Technology Center in Goesan County, North Chungcheong Province, planted rice in five distinct colors — white, green and red — within a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Ufan’s painting titled “East Winds” has sold for 3.1 billion won (US$2.66 million), becoming the most expensive artwork by a living South Korean artist, an auction house said Wednesday. At an auction held in Seoul on Tuesday, the 1984 masterpiece broke the previous record of 2.2 billion won, [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — “Universe,” a major dot painting by late South Korean abstract master Kim Whan-ki, will go on exhibition in his home country next month after it was sold for the highest price tag of any Korean painting in an auction last year. According to Gallery Hyundai, the diptych, officially titled [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Mino, a member of roaring boy band WINNER, officially debuted as a painter this week, the latest in a growing number of TV celebrities expanding their talent into the fine arts. An art exhibition including paintings by Mino, whose legal name is Song Min-ho began its run on Tuesday [...]
HONG KONG, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A major dot painting by late South Korean abstract master Kim Whan-ki sold for HK$88 million, or 13.2 billion won (US$11.2 million), in a Christie’s auction in Hong Kong on Saturday. It was the first time that a South Korean painting had fetched more than 10 billion won [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul introduced a new stairway wrapping that depicts Big Ben and London’s cityscape on June 22. The image on the wrapping is ‘Big Ben’ by André Derain, a French artist famous for introducing Fauvism, a modern style of painting. The Big Ben [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – After years of downturn, the Korean art market is prospering once again. According to the Asian Art Market 2015 report, last year’s total bids at seven domestic art work auctioneers totaled 189.23 billion won ($165 million). Revenue was close to 2007’s 192.66 billion, which was the most prosperous year [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s Sejong Center, along with the Joan Miró Mallorca Foundation, is hosting an exhibition of works by Joan Miró, an internationally acclaimed Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist from Barcelona. The exhibition, titled ‘Miró In Mallorca. A Wild Spirit’, is by far the largest in terms of size among any other [...]