What 104 Yun Hyong-keun lots sold at Korean auction between 2022 and 2026 show: the title tells you the decade, a 1970s Umber-Blue makes about three times a later canvas of the same size, and the yearly median doubled for reasons that have nothing to do with price.
Read the record 13 minOne artist at a time, with the record gone through properly. Plus the parts of a purchase that decide the price before you ever see it: editions, printing methods, condition, and what a gallery adds on the way to you.
For anyone buying art and wanting to know what they are actually being sold. Originals, editions and prints, at whatever a piece happens to cost.
What 229 Kim Whanki lots sold at Korean auction between 2022 and 2026 show: canvas at eight times paper, subject over size, oil on newspaper priced almost like a standard item, and prints that are mostly posthumous editions.
How Lee Ufan paints, what the 2016 forgery case settled and did not, and what 585 lots sold at Korean auction between 2022 and 2026 show: canvas at six times paper, large canvases down a third, and twelve matched print groups that all fell.
The ten highest prices Park Seo-Bo has made at Korean auction, his record abroad, and what 298 print and edition sales from 2022 to 2026 show about each kind of Ecriture print.
How to read the pencil marks in the margin of a print: edition numbers, artist's proofs, HC and plate signatures. With 66 Yayoi Kusama auction photographs read one by one, and what they could and could not show.
From 2022 to 2026, 277 Yayoi Kusama lots sold at Korean auction. Seventy were resin pumpkins and printed towels, and her pumpkin screenprints have not risen since 2022.
Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips held 18 modern and contemporary evening sales between January and June 2026, worth about 2.91 billion dollars. Three-quarters of it changed hands in one week in May, and eight of the 18 sales sold every lot they offered.
Every David Hockney that sold at Korean auction from 2022 to 2026 was an edition or a book. One My Window print sold thirteen times, and its price moved seven months before he died.
A Genzken diptych made $258,000 on an $80,000 estimate at Phillips in July 2026, the largest multiple in the sale. Measured by area it is the cheapest Basic Research painting of the five whose prices can be traced.
Three numbers from the same four years of Kim Sunwoo's auction record: the record high up 88 percent, the median painting down 26 percent, and a like for like canvas up 34 percent. Only one of them is about price.
Lee Bae's originals rose 89 percent in four years while his editions fell 14 percent. The gap between those two numbers is the most useful thing his record has to teach, and it applies to artists at any price.
A Lee Jinwoo canvas hammered at $97,000 in August 2026 and the rise got reported as 73 percent in three months. Measured by area it was 36 percent, and his entire auction record is twenty lots deep.
One Youngju Joung silkscreen hammered at exactly 2 million won in April 2023, June 2023, July 2023 and December 2025. Over the same stretch her large paintings went from $67,000 to $130,000.
Seoul Auction and K Auction held their August 2026 major sales a day apart. Nearly half the modern and contemporary lots sold at precisely the bottom of their estimate range, including every one of the big Korean names.
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