Lot n° 61
Korea, Joseon Dynasty, late 19th c.
181 x 342,4 cm (gefaltet/folded 185 x 43,5 x 15 cm)
Ink and light colours on silk. Consisting of ten vertical panels affixed with album leaves and fan pictures. Numerous small pictures are arranged like a collage on each panel. The individual depictions show typical motifs of Korean art: landscapes, flowers, birds and genre scenes. Some with inscriptions and seals.
From an old Southern German private collection - Cf. a ten-part screen of the same type in The Cleveland Museum of Art, no. 1998.286, dated late 19th century - Partially slight signs of age, minimal repaired
Baeknapdo (백납도) literally means "picture of a hundred themes". It describes the style in which many different small individual images (such as landscapes, flowers, birds, animals and everyday scenes) are arranged on a surface like a collage. This special art form was particularly popular in the late Joseon Dynasty (19th to early 20th century) and is characterised by the variety of motifs, the symbolism and the particular artistic freedom. Byeongpung with Baeknapdo painting served both as a decorative room divider and as a status symbol in the homes of the scholarly elite
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