
Écriture No. 67-78-79
1979
Park Seo-Bo's 'Écriture No. 67-78-79' (1979) combines pencil and oil on canvas to explore abstraction through gestural mark-making. This work is part of the artist's ongoing 'Écriture' series investigating the intersection of writing and visual art.
- Medium
- pencil and oil on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
May 31, 2024
Lot 12
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Cy Twombly
American · b. 1928

Twombly similarly merged writing and painting through gestural pencil and oil markings on canvas, creating works that blur the boundary between calligraphic inscription and abstract expression with a comparable monochromatic sensibility.

Lee Ufan
Korean · b. 1936

As a fellow Korean Dansaekhwa artist, Lee Ufan shares Park Seo-Bo's commitment to repetitive gestural mark-making and monochrome restraint, exploring the meditative relationship between the artist's hand and the canvas surface.

Brice Marden
American · b. 1938

Marden's work integrates calligraphic line work with oil on canvas in a gestural yet disciplined manner, echoing the same fusion of Eastern writing traditions and Western abstract painting that defines this specific Écriture piece.
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