Trois Coréens, Séoul Corée (Miles 27)

Three young Korean men are shown in close half-length grouping against a plain grey-blue background, two wearing tall woven horsehair hats (one black, one brown) and the third bare-headed with cropped dark hair. The central figure, in a black wide-brimmed hat with chin cords, holds a black and gold pipe or fan-like object, flanked by a companion in a loose white robe with a hand raised to his chin and another wrapped in a mustard-yellow garment edged in green, his bare shoulder exposed. Fine mica speckling glints across the background, and the figures' faces are rendered with delicate pale shading against the muted palette of grey, white, ochre, and black.