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

Lot 24
28.05.2024 18:00UTC +08:00
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HKD 8 820 000
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ID 1225651
Lot 24 | ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)
Estimate value
HKD 7 000 000 – 14 000 000
ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)
16.04.62.
signed in Chinese and signed ‘ZAO' (lower right of the right panel); signed, titled, and dated 'ZAO Wou-Ki 16.4.12.' (on the reverse)
oil on board (triptych)
each: 89.5 x 14.5 cm. (35 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.)
overall: 89.5 x 44.5 cm. (35 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)
Excecuted in 1962




Provenance

Collection of Mountain Arts Culture and Education Foundation, Taiwan
Private collection, Asia
China Guardian Hong Kong, 2 October 2017, lot 785
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Literature

A Retrospective of Zao Wou-Ki, exh. cat., Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, 1995 (illustrated p.142).
Yves Bonnefoy & Gérard de Cortanze (ed.), Zao Wou-Ki, La Différence/Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1998 (illustrated p.126).
The Joy of Collecting Art, Mountain Art Culture and Education Foundation, Kaohsiung, 2014 (illustrated p.65).
F. Marquet-Zao and Y. Hendgen, Catalogue Raisonne des Peintures Zao Wou-Ki, vol. II 1959-1974, Editions Flammarion, Paris, 2023 (illustrated, plate 0707, p. 90).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Creuze-vault, Diptych and Triptychs by Contemporary Artists, 1962.
London, Redfern Gallery, Zao Wou-Ki, 29 October - 29 November 1963.
Paris, Galerie de France, Zao Wou-Ki, 1964.
Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, A Retrospective of Zao Wou-Ki, January – April 1996.
Kaohsiung, Mountain Arts Museum, Treasure in Mountain: The Select Collection, July 2000.
Shanghai, Shanghai Museum, Legend in Mountain: Encounter Western Masterpiece, March 2003.
Chengdu, Sichuan Art Museum, Legend in Mountain: Encounter Western Masterpiece, 29 April - 11 June 2003.
Taipei, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, The Joy of Collecting Art, 25 April - 25 May 2014.



Further details

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