
Ecriture No. 15
1977
Park Seo-Bo's Ecriture No. 15 (1977) is an oil and pencil on canvas work from the artist's ongoing exploration of writing, abstraction, and mark-making. The work exemplifies the artist's Monochrome and Dansaekhwa movements that emerged in Korean contemporary art.
- Medium
- oil and pencil on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in Association with Poly Auction
June 8, 2021
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Ha Chong-Hyun
Korean · b. 1935

Ha Chong-Hyun is a central figure in the Dansaekhwa movement alongside Park Seo-Bo, creating monochromatic canvases defined by repetitive gestural mark-making and a meditative engagement with materials. His works share the same contemplative minimalism and emphasis on process over representation seen in Ecriture No. 15.

Cy Twombly
American · b. 1928

Twombly similarly combined oil paint and pencil on canvas to produce works centered on gestural writing, scrawled marks, and the expressive potential of line as both language and abstraction. His repetitive graphic mark-making on monochromatic or muted fields closely echoes the visual logic of Ecriture No. 15.

Lee Ufan
Korean · b. 1936

Lee Ufan is a leading Dansaekhwa and Mono-ha artist whose restrained, repetitive brushstroke compositions on bare canvas share the same minimalist and contemplative spirit as Park Seo-Bo's Ecriture series. Both artists treat mark-making as a philosophical act rooted in presence, absence, and the rhythm of gesture.
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