A Work of Bae Dong-shin, a World-Renowned Painter of South Korea, Sold for 1.5 Million Dollars at an eBay art auction

The recent sale of the work by Bae Dong-shin registered South Korea's highest price per ho, the size unit for Korean paintings. Further, it made Bae the first South Korean artist successively sold at eBay auction, a world-class online art market.

Meanwhile, according to BBC in July 2014, eBay signed with Sotheby for online auction operation.
http://m.bbc.com/news/business-28301139

Bae Dong-shin debuted as a painter into the Japanese art community as a full member of Jiyu Bijutsu Association in 1943 when he was selected for Jiyu Bijutsu Association Exhibition. Returned to Korea, his home country, Bae Dong-shin worked in Gwangju, his home town. And having upgraded watercolor, previously regarded as a study in Korea, to a legitimate genre of fine art, the painter was recognized in his country as the 'authority in Korean watercolor painting' when he was alive.

The specific eBay auction site below.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Art-Gallery-Watercolor-Portrait-of-Woman-Korean-Premier-Artist-DONG-SHIN-BAE-/192338233592

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