When I mentioned in a column last year that Lee U Fan had won the Japanese Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale award for painting, this provoked a number of questions from readers.
One question was: “Who is Lee U Fan?” A fair enough query, as the prize has previously been awarded to painters such as Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns and Gerhard Richter, all of them much better known than Lee.
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