Ufan, Lee 5 monochromatic watercolours and an outline drawing in pencil, in: Un Poléoscope. Poème en proses et en poèmes. 1990. each on Richard de Bas laid paper (wt.). 33 x 25 cm (sheet size). The watercolours signed and monogrammed, dated and numbered, the outline drawing titled, signed and numbered again in the imprint. On folded double sheet loosely in original cover, in linen chemise. - With a text by Michel Deguy. - Double sheet and cover very slightly browned in outermost margins, paper very slightly wavy, scattered, pale dark tiny stain, back and spine of cover with very few pale brown small stains, overall good. KW Koopm K 338 - FRBNF47420363. - Provenance: Private property Paris. - One of only 17 unique serial copies. - A magical poetry speaks from Lee Ufan's works, which combine rhythmised monochrome with movement. Since the 1970s, the Korean artist, who lives between Paris, New York and Japan, has focussed on the execution of a single brushstroke in his minimalist work, drawing it across canvas and paper with enormous power. After deep meditation, it seems, he dips the broad brush in ocean blue and begins to paint in an act of supreme artistic expression until it no longer gives off any colour. In a masterly reduction, the flowing colour becomes a pictorial mediator, showing action and processuality. The movement of the artist's hand reveals a connection between body and temporality and places brushstroke and picture ground in a dialectical relationship to one another. It is the painterly imprint of Ufan, whose trace can be experienced directly in all its materiality. In Un Poléoscope, Ufan is responsible for the Far Eastern edition of the artist's book created in collaboration with the French poet Michel Deguy; two further editions are known with illustrations by Lucio Pozzi and David Jones. This portfolio from the artist's early work is being offered on the German auction market for the first time. Only one other copy in the Koopman Collection, Amsterdam, is known to us. In 'Un Poléoscope', Ufan is responsible for the Far Eastern edition of the artist's book created in collaboration with the French poet Michel Deguy, two further editions are known with illustrations by Lucio Pozzi and David Jones. This portfolio from the artist's early work is being presented to the German auction market for the first time. Only one other copy in the Koopman Collection, Amsterdam, is known to us. 5 monochromatic watercolours as well as an outline drawing in pencil, in: Un Poléoscope. Poème en proses et en poèmes. 1990. On Richard de Bas laid paper (with watermark). Watercolours signed or rather monogrammed, dated and numbered, pencil drawing titled, signed and numbered again in imprint. On folded double sheet loose in original cover, in linen chemise. - With text by Michel Deguy. - Double sheet as well as cover in outermost margins very slightly browned, paper very slightly buckled, isolated, pale-dark tiny stain, cover's back and spine with very few faint-brown small stains, all in all good. - Provenance: Private collection, Paris. - One of only 17 serial-unique copies. - A magical poetry speaks from Lee Ufan's works, which combine rhythmised monochrome with movement. Since the 1970s, the Korean artist, who lives between Paris, New York and Japan, has focussed on the execution of a single brushstroke in his minimalist work, drawing it across canvas and paper with enormous power. After deep meditation, it seems, he dips the broad brush in ocean blue and begins to paint in an act of supreme artistic expression until it no longer gives off any colour. In a masterly reduction, the flowing colour becomes a pictorial mediator, showing action and processuality. The movement of the artist's hand reveals a connection between body and temporality and places brushstroke and picture ground in a dialectical relationship to one another. It is the painterly imprint of Ufan, whose trace can be directly experienced in all its materiality.