MMCA Lee Kun-hee Collection: Monet, Picasso and the Masters of the Belle Epoque

Marc Chagall, Les amoureux aux bouquets rouges, 1975, Lee Kun-hee Collection, MMCA.

Lee Kun-hee Collection: Masterpieces of Korean Art is a special exhibition introducing paintings by Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Joan Miró, Marc chagall, Paul Gaugin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Salvador Dalí together with 90 ceramic works by Pablo Picasso from the Lee Kun-hee collection donated to the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) in 2021. The exhibition is designed to expand the appreciation of works by these masters and to explore the correlations both between the paintings and their links to Picasso’s ceramics.

Nicola Jennings