Seund Ja RHEE, 1918-2009 Ambitious dawn, Ranelagh,... Lot 54

Seund Ja RHEE, 1918-2009 Ambitious dawn, Ranelagh, 1964-1966 oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, signed, located, dated and annotated 20F618, titled on the stretcher 73 x 60 cm. Also included - Seund Ja Rhee, Seoul National University, Korea, 1965. - Seund Ja Rhee, Galerie de la Lumière, May 1967, exhibition catalog accompanied by a letter from Rhee to Galy-Carles. - H. Galy-Carles, Seund Ja Rhee, Galerie Charpentier, 1968. - M. Azzolini, Seund Ja Rhee, La Nuova Loggia Grafica, Bologna, 1971. - Seund Ja Rhee, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, 1988, with dedication. - Seund Ja Rhee Paintings and Woodblock Prints Exhibition, International Monetary Fund Atrium, Washington, USA, 1997. - Seund Ja Rhee, The Song of the Cosmos, Gallery Hyundai, 2007, with dedication. - Seund Ja Rhee, Le retour aux Sources, Gyeongnam, South Korea, 2008, with a dedication. Provenance: Henry GALY-CARLES Collection The Seund Ja Rhee Foundation has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work, which it records in its archives. To bid on this lot, we ask for a deposit of 3,500 euros corresponding to 10% of its low estimate. To do this, you have the option of making payment via : Bank transfer: IBAN: FR76 1558 9351 0901 6911 3014 140 - BIC: CMBRFR2BARK and provide us with your own bank details for reimbursement of funds if necessary. Or directly online via secure payment: https://www.drouotonline.com/paiement/drouotrennesencheres This advance payment will be reimbursed to you within 48 hours in the event of non-purchase, depending on bank delays. Seund Ja RHEE Born in Korea in 1918, painter, engraver and ceramist Seund Ja Rhee studied in Korea before moving to Japan in 1935 to study at Tokyo's Jissen University for Women. She returned to Korea in 1938, where she married and had three children, from whom she was separated during the Korean War. She moved to Paris in the early 1950s and entered the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where her teachers included Yves Brayer and Henri Goetz. She was the only Korean artist at the Ecole de Paris. The artist whom writer Michel Butor nicknamed the Ambassador of the Dawn, moved to the South of France, where she had her studio "Rivière Argent" built to her own design. She remained there until her death in 2009, though she kept a studio in Paris. "If we analyze the paintings of SEUND JA RHEE, we will be particularly struck by the secret, unusual mystery that emanates from them, a homogeneous reflection of a personality marked by its Korean origins, turned towards a subconsciousness in which a cosmic and spatial dynamism clearly circulates: Through his constant, vibrant pointillist technique emerges an unusual sign of geometric form, dynamic in the shades used, dominated by pastel blue, revealing a subtlety of perception, volition and a sense of sensuality, of exceptional refinement and impalpable poetry. Henry GALY-CARLES, Les Expositions à Paris, Réflexions à propos de l'Ecole de Paris - 1962.