A Very Rare/Old Korean Prunus Ink Scroll Painting-17th -18th C.

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A Very Rare/Old/Fine Korean Prunus Ink Scroll Painting-17th -18th C.: $3,500 Korea, Joseon dynasty, 17th to 18th century, signed San Hae Gaek (山海客-sealed in black in sqare). Hanging scroll, ink on paper; depicting a boldly brushed prunus tree trunk issuing slender twigs of blossoms, surrounded by a poem of 28 Chinese characters and a painted square seal to the lower left. It’s in fair condition with some tears and wrinkles with age, and meaures 37”h. x 22 3/8” d. or (94 cm x 57cm). ***San Hae Gaek(山海客): a black seal stamped on the middle left (the seal must belong to one of the examples of the artists, Chang Gang-Cho-Sok, or Sul-Gok-Yeo Mong Yong.below examples of artists. *** For examples of very similar stroke ink-painting with prunus see a photo #6. and their details below: *** Foot note: The thick ink strokes forming the tree trunk recall a paintings of the same subject by artists below: ***A): Chang Gang, Cho Sok (1595-1668), #129, page 242, ***B): Sul-Gok, Yeo Mong-Yong (born 1566), #96, page 197 now in the National Museum 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 outlined knots in the bark, as if independent of the bark, also appear in an album of eight prunus branches attributed to Cho Sok illustrated in Musée Guimet The Poetry of Ink: The Korean Literati Tradition 1392-1910, Paris, 2005, cat. no. 74, pp. 140-141.