Lot 660: Kim Tchah-Sub (B. 1940)

Kim Tchah-Sub (B. 1940)
Mountain, 2001
Signed in hangul, Kim Tchah-Sub and dated 2001
Pastel on Ingres-Fabriano paper
6 7/8 x 9¾in. (17.5 x 24.7cm.)

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

The artist was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. His family moved to Gyeongju, Korea in 1944. He graduated from Seoul National University in 1963 and received his MFA from Pratt Institute in 1976 under a John D. Rockefeller 3rd Fund Fellowship. He had one-person exhibitions at the Associated American Artists Gallery, New York, in 1977, the Space Gallery, Seoul, in 1979 and 1984; the Iteza Gallery, Kyoto, in 1986; the Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, in 1993; Marronnier Art Center, Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, in 2002; and in the "Lee Joongsub Award Show" at the Chosun Ilbo Museum, Seoul, in 2003. His work was exhibited in "Acquisitions '73--'76," the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in "30 Years of American Printmaking," the Brooklyn Museum in 1974 and "Six Artists from Korea," Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, in 1995. His work was exhibited at the Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, in 2009. Kim's work is in the collections of the Hoam Museum, Seoul, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea, the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Brooklyn Museum and the Cincinnati Museum of Art, among others.

A painting by the artist was sold in these Rooms, 29 March, 2005, lot 558.