Park Seo-Bo

Private Collection, Asia
Hong Kong, Sotheby’s S|2, Avant Garde Asia - Lines of Korean Masters, March 2015
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Seoul, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 1^st Contemporary Art Exhibition, December 1975

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of very light wear and handling along the edges including several dents along the top and bottom edge. There are scattered media accretions and irregularities in the texture all presumably part of the artist’s working method and chosen medium. Under very close inspection, there is a thin, diagonal linear abrasion in the lower right quadrant that extends approximately 3 inches. Under ultraviolet light inspection, the aforementioned abrasion and several areas in the lower right quadrant fluoresce. Unframed.
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"Even though my paintings may represent an idea about culture, the main focus is always based on nature. In other words, I want to reduce the idea and emotion in my work, to express my interest in space from the view of nature. Then I want to reduce that—to pure emptiness. This has been an old value that still exists in oriental philosophy where nature and men are one.”
Park Seo-Bo