Yi Eungro's most famous painting is Untitled (1969), in the Lee Ungno Museum, Daegu. With Composition (1970) and Composition (1970), it completes the three works everyone recognises. Our catalogue lists 99 works by Yi Eungro; the 99 below are the ones the world looks at most, each with its year, the museum that holds it and why it matters.
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This captivating piece draws its rich thematic wellspring from The travels of Marco Polo Series, a monumental body of work conceived by the masterful Korean-French artist, Yi Eungro. Far more than a mere depiction, this painting functions as a visual memoir—a dreamlike cartography of an unknown world viewed through the sophisticated lens of East Asian perspective meeting European curiosity. The very essence of the series speaks to cultural exchange and…
In the evocative depths of The Travels of Marco Polo Series, we encounter a world where the boundaries between historical chronicle and personal dreamscape dissolve. Created by the master Lee Ungno in 1980, this particular piece serves as a window into a lost narrative—a fragment of a grand, seventy-nine-painting odyssey that was intended for a book never published. This sense of "unseen history" lends the work an aura of profound…
The artwork presents a monochrome landscape rendered in black ink on a light, absorbent surface. The composition is defined by a series of triangular forms that suggest the…
A Journey Across Horizons: Exploring Lee Ungno’s “The Travels of Marco Polo Series” Lee Ungno (Yi Eungro), born in Seoul in 1904, was a Korean-born French painter and…
In the profound stillness of Yi Eungro’s The Travels of Marco Polo Series, we find ourselves transported not merely to a geographical location, but to a dreamscape where…
In the evocative masterpiece Composition, created in 1970, the legendary Korean artist Lee Ungno (Yi Eungro) achieves a breathtaking synthesis of Eastern materiality and Western abstraction. This vertical…
A Panoramic Vision of Exploration and Harmony: Yi Ungno’s “The Travels of Marco Polo Series” Yi Ungno's "The Travels of Marco Polo Series," painted in 1980, stands as…
In the quiet intimacy of Mask, we encounter a profound dialogue between form and raw material. Created in 1985, this evocative sculpture serves as a hauntingly beautiful testament…
In 1967, Lee Ungno was imprisoned for 2 years and 6 months for his involvement in the East Berlin Affair. He suffered most from an inability to continue…
The starting point of Lee Ungno’s artistic world was bamboo, one of the “Four Gracious Plants (Sagunja),” and it was also bamboo that he favored most as a…
In the evocative realm of mid-century abstraction, few works capture the primal essence of nature as tangibly as Yi Eungro’s Composition. Created in 1964, this masterpiece serves as…
In the vast, evocative expanse of Yi Eungro’s 1985 masterpiece, "People," we are invited into a profound meditation on the collective human experience. This monumental work, measuring an…
This painting is from Goam’s The Travels of Marco Polo Series, which he undertook when asked to produce artworks for a book of that name. The whole series…
This painting is from Goam’s The Travels of Marco Polo Series, which he undertook when asked to produce artworks for a book of that name. The whole series…
This painting is from Goam’s The Travels of Marco Polo Series, which he undertook when asked to produce artworks for a book of that name. The whole series…
This painting is from Goam’s The Travels of Marco Polo Series, which he undertook when asked to produce artworks for a book of that name. The whole series…
This painting is from Goam’s The Travels of Marco Polo Series, which he undertook when asked to produce artworks for a book of that name. The whole series…
This painting is an early example that captures Ungno’s major step into abstract art. Although it is still suggestive of specific forms such as tree branches and leaves,…
In the 1970s and ‘80s, Lee Ungno produced a lot of print works that were connected with his Abstract Letter or People series in content, while showing diverse…
Lee Ungno started his People series in 1979 and continued it until his death. In the early series, people appeared as dancing figures in groups, while the Series…
A great example of the constructive Abstract Letter works that Lee Ungno made in the 1970s, this painting represents the Chinese character 壽 (soo), meaning ‘life’. The solid…
This work, which is linked to Abstract Letter series in content, presents a dramatic contrast between the white background and the red form. Ungno’s print works, except those…
The four subjects that return most often among these masterpieces, with the finest example of each.
The museum that holds the most of the paintings on this page.
| Museum | City | Works by Yi Eungro | Paintings from this list |
|---|---|---|---|
 Lee Ungno Museum |
Daegu | 99 | Untitled, Composition, Composition |
This painting is an early example that captures Ungno’s major step into abstract art. Although it is still suggestive of specific forms such as tree branches and leaves,…
This captivating piece draws its rich thematic wellspring from The travels of Marco Polo Series, a monumental body of work conceived by the masterful Korean-French artist, Yi Eungro.…
Untitled (1969), Lee Ungno Museum, Daegu. Next come Composition (1970) and Composition (1970).
65 years old: Untitled dates from 1969 and Yi Eungro was born in 1904.
Untitled, Composition, Composition, I Ching 64 Hexagrams Sequence(山風蠱), I Ching 64 Hexagrams Sequence(澤風大過), I Ching 64 Hexagrams Sequence (火風鼎), Untitled, People, The travels of Marco Polo Series and The travels of Marco Polo Series. The ranking above gives the year and the museum of each.
Our catalogue lists 99 works by Yi Eungro, dated from 1950 to 1989.
Most of them are in Lee Ungno Museum (Daegu). The table above lists the museums one by one.
In 1970s: 52 of the 99 works on this page date from then, among them Composition.
The earliest on this page is Landscape (1950), the latest People (1989).
Korean art (8), Landscape (5) and Geometric forms (5), among the 99 works on this page.
Acrylic On Canvas: 3 of the 99 works on this page.
Abstract expressionism, as the paintings on this page show.
Untitled, Composition and Composition are among the 99 works on this page held by the Lee Ungno Museum, Daegu.
