Une anémone sauvage (A Wild Anemone)
"Une anémone sauvage" by Korean artist Rhee Seundja exemplifies her distinctive approach to abstraction through the intersection of Eastern and Western artistic traditions. The work employs delicate linear elements and subtle color modulations to suggest the fragile, organic form of a wild anemone flower while maintaining a fundamentally non representational aesthetic. Seundja's practice, developed across multiple decades and continents, consistently explores how abstraction can evoke natural phenomena through refined material sensibility and compositional restraint.
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LITERATURE M. Butor, Seund Ja Rhee, Youl-wha-Dang, Seoul, 1985 (illustrated, no.24, n.p.; listed, no. 24, p.184). Seundja Rhee 1918-2009, exh. cat., Maronie Books, Seoul, 2018 (illustrated, no.43, n.p.; listed, no. 43, n.p.). EXHIBITED Gwacheon, National Museum of Modern Art, Seundja Rhee Retrospective, 1 - 30 April 1988 (illustrated, no.1, p. 33). Seoul Arts Center, Contemporary Korean Artists in Paris, 22 May - 15 June 2008 (illustrated, p.119). Seoul, Gallery Hyundai, Korean Art in the 1960s and 1970s, 7 - 24 March 2013. Seoul, Gallery Hyundai, Korean Abstract Painting - 45th Anniversary of Gallery Hyundai, 25 March - 22 April 2015 (illustrated, p. 32). Conditions of sale Brought to you by Emmanuelle Chan Co-Head, 20/21 Evening Sale ECHAN@CHRISTIES.COM +852 2978 6721
🔨 Auction Lot
20th/21st Century Evening Sale
March 27, 2026
Estimate: $2,800,000 – $4,800,000
Sold: $5,715,000
Lot 33
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