- As for the works by Bae Dong-shin, a nude painting which was 56x38cm, ten times as large as this one, was sold for 360,000 dollars to a Japanese collector around October 2014.http://www.ebay.com/itm/Art-Gallery-Watercolor-Portrait-of-Naked-Woman-Korean-Artist-DONG-SHIN-BAE-/281462483261 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 Photo: https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/595065/work_of_Bae_Dong_shin.jpg