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Seund Ja Rhee
Hangul
이성자
Hanja
Revised RomanizationLee Seong-ja
McCune–ReischauerYi Sŏng-ja

Seung Ja Lee (also transcribed as Seundja Rhee) (June 3, 1918 – March 8, 2009) was a Korean painter, printmaker and ceramist.

She was a prolific artist with more than 1000 paintings, 700 prints, 250 ceramics, and a lot of drawings.

She exhibited mainly in France and in Korea, with 84 solo exhibitions and almost 300 group exhibitions, during her lifetime.

Early life

Born in Jinju (South Korea), Rhee studied in Jinju Girls' High School before moving to Japan at Jissen Women's University (Tokyo) in 1938.
In 1938, she returned home and married.
In 1951, because of the Korean War, she was separated from her three sons. Then she left for Paris.

In 1953, she entered the Académie de la Grande Chaumière to study under Yves Brayer and Henri Goetz.

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