Lot Essay
Han Kisuk (Robert Han) is also known as Nong, a name connoting modesty and simplicity. Han is a painter and sculptor. His wood sculpture I Ching, circa 1968, was exhibited in "Asian American Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900--1970," at the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, and at the Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, New York, 2009 (see Daniell Cornell and Mark Dean Johnson, eds., Asian American Modert Art: Shifting Currents, 1900--1970, exh. cat. [San Francisco: Fine Art Museums of San Francisco; Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2009], pl. 59).