Ik-Joong Kang
Things I believe D19A-2005
Estimate: 22.000 - 25.000 USD
Price realised: 49.000 USD
Price realised: 49.000 USD
Description
Ik-Joong Kang (B. 1960)
Things I believe D19A-2005
Signed and dated in hangul on bottom row, from left, on squares 6--12 Kang Ik-Joong 2005 neun [year] 2 wal [month] and titled and dated as above and signed in roman letters Ik-Joong Kang in blue crayon on verso
Mixed media on wood
47 x 47in. (119.5 x 119.5cm.)
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Things I believe D19A-2005
Signed and dated in hangul on bottom row, from left, on squares 6--12 Kang Ik-Joong 2005 neun [year] 2 wal [month] and titled and dated as above and signed in roman letters Ik-Joong Kang in blue crayon on verso
Mixed media on wood
47 x 47in. (119.5 x 119.5cm.)
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Upper estimate price exceeded by 96 %.
This artwork by Kang Ik-Joong achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in New York in September 2007. In the Japanese and Korean Art auction, the work Things I believe D19A-2005 sold for USD 49,000.00 (€ 34,460.93) - well above the upper estimate of USD 25,000.00. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Kang Ik-Joong - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Moon Jars, which sold at auction in September 2008 for USD 134,500.00 (€ 95,518.78).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 96 % übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Kang Ik-Joong erzielte im September 2007 bei Christies in New York einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Japanese and Korean Art wurde die Arbeit Things I believe D19A-2005 für USD 49.000,00 (€ 34.460,93) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von USD 25.000,00. Für andere Arbeiten von Kang Ik-Joong mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Moon Jars beobachtet, die im September 2008 für USD 134.500,00 (€ 95.518,78) versteigert wurde.
Kang Ik-Joong - Auction history
Other artists in this auction
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