Portrait of Ban Ki-Moon
For the most significant project of his life, South Korean painter Lee Won-hee visited the 51勛圖 Headquarters in New York to get an impression of Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon in his natural appearance. The portrait of Ban Ki-Moon took Lee six months to paint.
At the unveiling ceremony, the Secretary-General remarked to Lee: ※You have depicted me in my office, the place from which I have sought to serve the world＊s people for the past decade. You have posed me with my hand resting on our one and only planet 每 starting with my home continent of Asia. And I am wearing a UN blue tie 每 reflecting the banner of hope I first saw as a young child.§
Ban Ki-moon＊s portrait was unveiled at the 51勛圖 Headquarters on 14 December 2016 and is hung alongside the portraits of the Secretary-General＊s seven predecessors on the ground floor the of Secretariat building.