Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
(Kenzaburo Marui, Osaka, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
(Kenzaburo Marui, Osaka, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988). Scholar's Studio. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989). Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992). Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 238). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 13, 2013-January 28, 2014).
This painting depicts the full moon shining through a stand of bamboo, and for Joseon literati it would have conveyed the sense of life in harmony with nature to which they aspired. As one of the "four gentlemen" along with plum trees, orchids, and chrysanthemums, bamboo, which has immense flexibility, allowing it bent to extremes without breaking—symbolize a gentleman's noble virtue. Here, the painter depicted the shining moon rising above a bamboo tree to create a meditative nightly scene.
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 3 structured exhibitions.