ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920 – 2013) - photo 1
ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920 – 2013) - photo 2

ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920 – 2013)

Lot 112
23.09.2023 00:00UTC +00:00
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CNY 12 400 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationHong Kong, Shanghai
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ID 1024665
Lot 112 | ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920 – 2013)
Estimate value
CNY 8 500 000 – 12 000 000
ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920 – 2013)

16.02.64

signed in Chinese, signed 'ZAO' (lower right); signed ‘ZAO Wou-Ki', titled and dated '16.2.64.' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

65 x 81 cm. (25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in.)

Painted in 1964





Provenance

Private collection, USA

Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2017, lot 365

Acquired at the above sale by the previous owner

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

Jean Leymarie, Zao Wou-Ki, documentation by Françoise Marquet, Hier et Demain Editions, Paris, France and Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, Spain, 1978 (illustrated, plate 112, p. 162).

Y. Bonnefoy & G. de Cortanze, Zao Wou-Ki, La Différence / Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1998 (illustrated, p. 128).



Further details

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Fondation Zao Wou-Ki, dated 15 June 2017.

This work is referenced in the archive of the Fondation Zao Wou-Ki and will be included in the artist's forthcoming catalogue raisonné prepared by Françoise Marquet and Yann Hendgen (Information provided by Fondation Zao Wou-Ki).
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