Fairyland (Number 57)
1950 · Incising and oil on metal foil on paper
3 1/4 x 6 1/8" (8.3 x 15.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Joong Seop Lee
1916
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1957
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Joong Seop Lee was a Korean sculptor and painter whose brief practice synthesized Buddhist sculptural traditions with modernist abstraction. Working in stone, bronze, and oil, he developed simplified organic forms that anchored Korean modernism in its own material and spiritual heritage rather than European models alone. Active in the postwar period, Lee's output was limited by his death in 1956, yet his work established a foundational vocabulary for twentieth-century Korean sculpture.
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