Lee Ungno

Lee Ungno (1904-1989) is a Korean painter. From 1967 to 1969 he was imprisoned in Korea under the false charge of espionage in favor of North Korea. He came to Paris for the first time in 1957. He would later settled permanently in the French capital, where he died in 1989. Ungno Lee is the prototype of the “transmodernist” artist who maintained a continual dialogue between his oriental tradition and a modernist approach of art.