# Tschang-Yeul Kim artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1929-12-24
- Death date: 2021-01-05
- Nationality: South Korean
- Movements: Art Informel, Modern Artists' Association in South Korea
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Tschang-Yeul Kim](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Park_Seo-Bo_with_his_colleagues_of_Hyun-Dai_Artists_Association_in_1958.jpg/1280px-Park_Seo-Bo_with_his_colleagues_of_Hyun-Dai_Artists_Association_in_1958.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Park_Seo-Bo_with_his_colleagues_of_Hyun-Dai_Artists_Association_in_1958.jpg

## About Tschang-Yeul Kim

Tschang-Yeul Kim (1929–2021) was a South Korean painter whose international career also became closely connected with France. Authority records preserve his identity under numerous Korean and romanized forms, including Kim Tschang-yeul, Kim Chang-Yul, Tschangyeul Kim, 김창열, and 金昌烈. In South Korea, he was associated with the Modern Artists' Association and the postwar Art Informel context. After presenting work internationally and studying in the United States, he relocated to Paris in 1969. There he developed the water-droplet paintings for which he became best known: abstract compositions organized around carefully rendered drops and their visual relationship to the painted surface. Collectors most often encounter Kim through paintings connected with this signature subject, although a responsible identification should still consider the work's date, medium, inscriptions, and documented history. His varied name forms make authority-record matching especially important when searching catalogues and auction archives.

## Common works and media

The collected evidence principally supports paintings, especially abstract compositions featuring water droplets. His signature water-droplet production developed after his move to Paris in 1969. The source pack does not provide enough evidence to characterize prints, sculpture, ceramics, or other media as common auction categories, so those work types should be assessed individually rather than assumed to be typical.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraising a work attributed to Tschang-Yeul Kim begins with secure identity matching because catalogues record him under several Korean and romanized names. Comparisons should distinguish paintings centered on his documented water-droplet subject from works that do not share the same format or career context. Relevant evidence may include the work's title, date, medium, dimensions, condition, provenance, and any supporting documentation, followed by comparison with appropriately related public auction results. Sale dates and realized prices can provide context when lot-level records are available, but record counts alone do not establish a trend or predict a future result. The supplied source pack does not support claims of premiums for a particular period or format.

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## Sources

- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/067300464
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/42642546/
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6409518
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500380929
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Tschang-yeul
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/tschang-yeul-kim/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Park_Seo-Bo_with_his_colleagues_of_Hyun-Dai_Artists_Association_in_1958.jpg