A Very Rare/Old/Fine Korean Plum Scroll Painting-17th -18th C.

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A Very Rare/Old/Fine Korean Plum Scroll Painting-17th -18th C.:
$3500.00

A Very Rare/Old/Fine Korean Plum Scroll Painting-17th -18thC.:

Korea,Joseon dynasty, 17th to 18th century, signed San Hae Gaek(山海客-sealed in black in sqare).

Hanging scroll, ink onpaper; depicting a boldly brushed plum tree trunk issuing slender twigs ofblossoms,

surrounded by a poem of 28 Chinese characters and a painted

square seal to thelower left. It’s in fair condition withsome tears and wrinkles with age,

and measures 37”h. x 22 3/8” d. or (94 cm x57cm).

***San Hae Gaek(山海客): a black seal stamped on the middleleft

(theseal must belong to one of the examples of the artists,

ChangGang-Cho-Sok, or Sul-Gok-Yeo MongYong.below examples of artists.

*** For examples of very similarstroke ink-painting with prunus see

aphoto #6. and theirdetails below:

*** Foot note: The thick ink strokes forming the tree trunkrecall a paintings of the

same subject byartists below:

***A): Chang Gang, Cho Sok (1595-1668), #129, page 242,

***B): Sul-Gok, Yeo Mong-Yong (born1566), #96, page 197

*C): Lee Bu-Yin(born 1529).-#69, page 143.

now in the NationalMuseum of Korea, illustrated in

Yu Pong-nyol, Han\'guk hoehwa daegwan (韓國繪畫大觀), (Overview of Korean Painting), Seoul, Mungyowon,1979, The spaces left on the paper between the trunk itself and the outlinedknots in the bark, as if independent of the bark, also appear in an album ofeight prunus branches attributed to ChoSok illustrated in Musée Guimet The Poetry of Ink: The Korean Literati Tradition1392-1910, Paris, 2005, cat. no. 74, pp. 140-141.