부농의 가정에서 삼남매 가운데 막내로 태어났던 이중섭은 5세 되던 해인 1920년에 아버지가 세상을 떠나자, 1929년에 부유했던 외가로 가서 살게 되었다.
Born as the youngest of three children into a wealthy farming family, Lee Jung-seob’s father died in 1920 when he was five years old, he later went to live with rich maternal family in 1929.