YI IN-MUN (1745-1821)*

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YI IN-MUN (1745-1821)*

Landscapes

A pair of hanging scrolls, ink on paper, 19 x 23.7 cm. each, sealed Youchun, mounted on brocade (2)

Lot Essay

Yi In-Mun, a late 18th/early 19th-century painter of grapes and landscapes, was as renowned as his contemporary Kim Hong-do (1745-ca. 1815). These two scenes, originally from an album, show a fisherman in a boat and a man in a rainstorm crossing a bridge near a house (chogajip).

For other examples of Yi In-mun see Ahn Hwi-joon, The National Treasures of Korea, Vol. 10 (1989), plates 110, 111