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Asking the Boy Beneath the Pines

Asking the Boy Beneath the Pines

Series
Calligraphy
Form
Hanging scroll
Year
1961
Medium
백지에 묵서
Size
70×25 cm

A calligraphy of Jia Dao's Tang-dynasty poem "Seeking the Hermit in Vain," which opens "Beneath the pines I ask the boy." Written in 1961 in her third year at Ewha Girls' High School and later recovered from her late father's effects, it is the earliest surviving work — the disciplined hand that long preceded her sutra art.

* Descriptions are provisional drafts, to be finalized after the printed catalogue.