CHRISTIE'S
Paintings — 20th/21st Century Evening Sale
03.04.2025 14:00 UTC +00:002025-04-03T14:00:00+02:00United Kingdom, London, 8 King Street, St. James'sCHRISTIE'S
Shanghai,
Hong Kong
Lot 825 KAZUO SHIRAGA (1924-2008)
Kazuo Shiraga (1924 - 2008) 
Kazuo Shiraga
12.08.1924 - 08.04.2008
Japan
Kazuo Shiraga (白髪 一雄, Shiraga Kazuo) was a Japanese abstract painter and the first-generation member of the postwar artists collective Gutai Art Association (Gutai). As a Gutai member, he was a prolific, inventive, and pioneering experimentalist who tackled a range of media: in addition to painting, he worked in performance art, three-dimensional object making, conceptual art, and installations, many of which are preserved only in documentary photos and films.
Lot 827 CHU TEH-CHUN (ZHU DEQUN, 1920-2014)
Chu Teh-Chun (1920 - 2014) 
Chu Teh-Chun
24.10.1920 - 26.03.2014
France, China
Chu Teh-Chun or Zhu Dequn was a Chinese-French abstract painter acclaimed for his pioneering style integrating traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western abstract art. Chu Teh-Chun enrolled in the National School of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art), where he studied under Fang Ganmin and Wu Dayu. He was the first ethnic Chinese member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of France, and together with Wu Guanzhong and Zao Wou-Ki were dubbed the "Three Musketeers" of modernist Chinese artists trained in China and France.
