
Ecriture no. 041121
2004
Park Seo-Bo's 'Ecriture no. 041121' (2004) employs mixed media and Korean paper on canvas to create an abstract work. The title references the artist's 'Ecriture' series, which explores the intersection of writing, painting, and materiality.
- Medium
- mixed media and Korean paper on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
March 31, 2023
Estimate: $1,000,000 to $2,000,000
Sold: $2,540,000
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Ha Chong-Hyun
Korean · b. 1935

Ha Chong-Hyun's Dansaekhwa paintings share Park Seo-Bo's devotion to material process, texture, and meditative restraint, pushing paint through burlap to create subtly organic and contemplative abstract surfaces that echo the tactile depth of the Ecriture series.
Yun Hyong-keun
Korean · b. 1928
Yun Hyong-keun worked within the same Korean Dansaekhwa movement, applying thinned pigment to raw canvas and linen to produce minimalist, deeply meditative works that share the subtle tonal restraint and philosophical weight found in Park's Ecriture paintings.

Cy Twombly
American · b. 1928

Twombly similarly explored the boundary between writing and painting through gestural mark making on layered surfaces, producing works that are simultaneously textured, contemplative, and abstract in ways that closely parallel the conceptual and visual language of Park's Ecriture series.
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