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Lot Essay
Rhee decided to leave Korea for Paris in 1951. One year after her arrival, Rhee began to study painting under Henri Goetz at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where he appointed her as his teaching assistant. Goetz saw her genuine creativity, talents and sincerity towards art. During this period she vigorously absorbed diverse techniques of oil paintings, further explored her own palette and compositional forms, and succeeded in such a short amount of time. Rhee's accomplishments were outstanding; her work was exhibited at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in 1956, drawing the attention of a noted art critic Georges Boudaille. He volunteered
to write a review for her. After this exhibition, Rhee gradually moved on to the discourse of abstract painting.
Rhee's works, created through a painstakingly time consuming process of recurring meditative brushstrokes, has heavily influenced the development of abstract painting in the history of Korean modern art. Through the combination of Hangul (Korean alphabet) with geometric forms, she documented the dynamic change in her world. Painted in 1963, Une image bleu (A blue image) (Lot 486) is filled with a myriad of lines and points produced by repetitive brushstrokes, which is the unique artistic vocabulary of Rhee.
to write a review for her. After this exhibition, Rhee gradually moved on to the discourse of abstract painting.
Rhee's works, created through a painstakingly time consuming process of recurring meditative brushstrokes, has heavily influenced the development of abstract painting in the history of Korean modern art. Through the combination of Hangul (Korean alphabet) with geometric forms, she documented the dynamic change in her world. Painted in 1963, Une image bleu (A blue image) (Lot 486) is filled with a myriad of lines and points produced by repetitive brushstrokes, which is the unique artistic vocabulary of Rhee.