23-07-2021 23:02 via artnews.com

Lee Kun-hee’s Masterpieces: Inside the Late Samsung Chairman’s Storied Collection

Over the course of his life, Lee Kun-hee, the former chairman of Samsung Electronics who died in 2020, collected more than 20,000 artworks. The collection is reported to be worth billions of dollars. In the months after the collector’s death, many speculated about what would happen to his holdings. His heirs began considering selling the cache to avoid a huge estate bill, causing many to fear that it would leave South Korea.
In order to prevent many of these masterpieces from heading to sa
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