Han Kisuk (Robert Han: Nong) (B. 1930)
Lot 787

Han Kisuk (Robert Han: Nong) (B. 1930)

Moon and dragonfly, 1973

Closed20 March 2013

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USD 5,250

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Han Kisuk (Robert Han: Nong) (B. 1930)
Moon and dragonfly, 1973
Signed Nong and inscribed on cardboard panel on verso Nong 1973 San Francisco "Moon and dragonfly" 73-22 36" x 24"
Oil on canvas, framed
36 x 24in. (91.5 x 61cm.)

Specialist note

Han Kisuk (Robert Han) is also known as Nong, a name connoting modesty and simplicity. Han is a painter and sculptor. His wood sculpture I Ching, circa 1968, was exhibited in "Asian American Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900--1970," at the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, and at the Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, New York, 2009 (see Daniell Cornell and Mark Dean Johnson, eds., Asian American Modert Art: Shifting Currents, 1900--1970, exh. cat. [San Francisco: Fine Art Museums of San Francisco; Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2009], pl. 59).