Lee Bae

Korean | 1956

Lee Bae is a Korean Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1956. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Fondation Maeght in Saint-paul-de-vence. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Kunsthalle Mannheim have featured Lee Bae's work in the past.Lee Bae's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 514 USD to 369,546 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 369,546 USD for Issu du Feu ch 29, sold at Seoul Auction in 2021. Lee Bae has been featured in articles for Art Asia Pacific, FAD Magazine and Ocula. The most recent article is Korean Art Gets Spotlight at Venice Biennale 2024 written for Korea Herald in April 2024.

Artist's alternative names: Bae Lee, Lee Bae

acrylic medium, charcoal black on canvas

162.2×130.3cm

Issu du Feu ch 3-14 , 2016

wooden charcoal on canvas

162.0☓130.0cm (100)

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At Auction

Upcoming Lots

Landscape ch3-33

By Lee Bae

Phillips Hong Kong

Issu du Feu

By Lee Bae

Korea Premier Auction

Brushstroke

By Lee Bae

Korea Premier Auction

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Recent Auction Results

무제

By Lee Bae

-40%

below mid-estimate

Korea Premier Auction

Untitled

By Lee Bae

Korea Premier Auction

Brushstroke

By Lee Bae

+7%

above mid-estimate

Korea Premier Auction

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Current Exhibitions

The Fondation Maeght thinks big!

Fondation Maeght

Saint-paul-de-vence | France

Dec 18,2023 - Jun 11,2024

Lee Bae

Johyun Gallery, Dalmaji

Busan | South Korea

May 10,2024 - Jul 21,2024

Past Exhibitions

Imagine

Perrotin, Seoul (Dosan Park)

Gangnam-gu | Seoul | South Korea

Mar 28,2024 - Apr 27,2024

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Articles

Guide to the 60th Venice Biennale: Solo and Group Exhibitions

Art Asia Pacific 18/04/2024

The 60th Venice Biennale returns on April 20 and will feature 332 artists and groups from across the world. The central exhibition, themed “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere,” is curated by Adriano Pedrosa, the first artistic director to hail from South America.

Korean Art Gets Spotlight at Venice Biennale 2024

Korea Herald 18/04/2024

Korean Pavilion's 'Koo Jeong A -- Odorama Cities' presents scent memories of Korea

Highlights from Art Basel Hong Kong 2024

Art Asia Pacific 02/04/2024

AAP editors share their thoughts on a number of works from the first large-scale, in-person edition of Art Basel Hong Kong since 2019.

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Coverage

“ ..Between the forms and the materials, temporality and the emergence of gesture, an attitude between body and nature, everything in Lee Bae’s work is the expression of vitality, strength and energy... ”
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Fondation Maeght

“ .. Of Lee Bae’s works that we have seen in the past few years, his black and creamy white paintings done in acrylic are the most prevalent... ”
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Galerie Perrotin, Paris (Turenne)

“ ..Charcoal has figured prominently in Lee Bae’s practice since 1990, when the artist first moved to Paris and took up the ubiquitous material out of economic necessity... ”
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Galerie Perrotin, New York