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

Lot 22
28.11.2023 19:00UTC +08:00
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HKD 24 575 000
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ID 1093286
Lot 22 | ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)
Estimate value
HKD 20 000 000 – 30 000 000
ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)

Sans titre (Untitled)

signed in Chinese, signed and dated ‘ZAO 56’ (lower right)

oil on canvas

100 x 50 cm. (39 3⁄8 x 19 5⁄8 in.)

Painted in 1956





Provenance

Galerie de France, Paris

Private collection, Switzerland

Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong

Private collection, Asia

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

Jean Leymarie, Cercle d'Art, Zao Wou-Ki, Barcelona, 1986 (illustrated, plate 268, p. 280).

Yves Bonnefoy, Gerard de Cortanze, La Différence / Enrico Navarra, Zao Wou-Ki, Paris, 1998 (illustrated, p. 104).

Lin & Keng Gallery Inc. Zao Wou-Ki 1948-1999 Retrospecitve Exhibition exh.cat., Taipei, 1999 (illustrated, p. 24).

Dominique de Villepin, Zao Wou-Ki. Works 1935-2008, Kwai Fung Art Publishing House, Hong Kong, 2010 (illustrated, p.123).

F. Marquet-Zao & Y. Hendgen (ed.), Flammarion, Catalogue raisonné des peintures Zao Wou-Ki volume 1 1935-1958, Paris, 2019 (illustrated, plate P-0493, p. 230 & p. 320).



Exhibited

Hong Kong, Alisan Fine Arts, Zao Wou-Ki, 4 - 24 May 1996.

Tapei, Lin & Keng Gallery, Zao Wou-Ki 1948-1999 Retrospecitive Exhibition, 13 - 30 November 1999.

Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Zao Wou-Ki, 16 October 2004 – 16 January 2005



Further details

This work is referenced in the archive of the Fondation Zao Wou-Ki.
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