Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund
Museum
Bird Sleeping on a Plum Tree
early 1900s
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Provenance
Public?–1998
The Honorable Joseph P. Carroll and Roberta Carroll, MD, New York, NY
1998
(Joseph P. Carroll, Ltd., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1998–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Source provenance text
The Honorable Joseph P. Carroll and Roberta Carroll, MD, New York, NY (Joseph P. Carroll, Ltd., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).
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Sourced Overview Evidence
The plum’s status as the orthodox symbol of the literati’s pure spirit originated in Lin Bu’s poem "Tiny Plum Flowers in Mountain Garden." The plum was also widely depicted in Korean paintings as part of the Four Gentlemen—or Four Gracious Plants—motif. Here, the plum and bamboo express literati spirituality while the bird with its head pointing downward indicates the artist’s feelings about the unstable situation at the end of the Joseon period. Yang Ki-hun was a Korean scholar-official renowned for painting and calligraphy. King Gojong (reigned 1863–1907) was one of Yang's prominent patrons.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 3 structured provenance events · 1 structured exhibitions.
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