ID 1303644
Lot 9 | ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)
Estimate value
HKD 78 000 000 – 128 000 000
05.06.80 - Triptyque
signed in Chinese and signed ‘ZAO’ (lower right of panel III);
signed, titled, inscribed and dated ‘ZAO WOU-KI Triptyque I 195 x 390 5.6.80.’ (on the reverse of panel I);
signed, titled, inscribed and dated ‘ZAO WOU-KI Triptyque II 5.6.80 195 x 390.’ (on the reverse of panel II);
signed, titled, inscribed and dated ‘ZAO WOU-KI Triptyque III 5.6.80 195 x 390’ (on the reverse of panel III)
oil on canvas (triptych)
each: 195 x 130 cm. (76 3/4 x 51 1/8 in.) (3)
overall: 195 x 390 cm. (76 3/4 x 153 1/2 in.)
Painted in 1980
Provenance
The Artist
Artcurial centre d'art plastique contemporain, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Private collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1988)
Literature
Zao Wou-Ki : Peintures, encres de Chine, exh. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1981 (illustrated, unpaged).
Zao Wou-Ki: Peintures, encres de Chine, exh. cat., Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka; Grand Art Gallery, Tokyo; Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui; The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Kyoto; The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura, Kamakura, 1981-1982 (illustrated & listed, plate 46, unpaged).
Paintings Zao Wou-Ki, exh. cat., Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 1982 (illustrated, unpaged).
Zao Wou-Ki, exh. cat., The National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art), Hangzhou, 1983 (listed, unpaged).
J. Leymarie, Zao Wou-Ki, Updated Edition, Editions Cercle d’Art, Paris, and Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1986 (illustrated, plate 230, p. 282-283).
Zao Wou-Ki 1955-1988, exh. cat., Artcurial centre d'art plastique contemporain, Paris, 1988 (illustrated, p. 22-23; listed, p. 45).
Y. Bonnefoy & G. de Cortanze (ed.), Zao Wou-Ki, La Différence / Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1998 (illustrated, p. 192).
R. Lesgards, Zao Wou-Ki : Couleurs et Mots, Le Cherche-Midi Éditeur, Paris, 1998 (illustrated, p. 43).
D. de Villepin, F. Marquet, Y. Hendgen, Zao Wou-Ki - Oeuvres 1935-2008, Flammarion, Paris, 2009, 2012 and 2017 (illustrated, p. 226-227).
D. de Villepin, F. Marquet, Y. Hendgen, Zao Wou-Ki - Oeuvres 1935-2008, Kwai Fung Art Publishing House, Hong Kong, 2010 (illustrated, p. 226-227).
R. Lesgards, Zao Wou-Ki : Couleurs et Mots, Le Cherche-Midi Éditeur, Paris, 2013 (illustrated, p. 46-47).
Exhibited
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Zao Wou-Ki : Peintures, encres de Chine, 12 June - 10 August 1981.
Fukuoka, Fukuoka Art Museum, Zao Wou-Ki: Peintures, encres de Chine, 6 – 21 October 1981. This exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Grand Art Gallery, 13 - 18 November 1981; Fukui, Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, 27 February - 22 March 1982; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, 30 March - 9 May 1982; Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura , 16 May - 20 June 1982.
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Zao Wou-Ki, 1982.
Beijing, The National Art Museum of China, Zao Wou-Ki, September 1983. This exhibition later travelled to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art), 1983.
Aix-en-Provence, Galerie de la Prévoté, Zao Wou-Ki : oeuvres récentes, 1986.
Paris, Artcurial centre d'art plastique contemporain, Zao Wou-Ki 1955-1988, September - November 1988.
Further Details
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Fondation Zao Wou-Ki on 28 November 2018.
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).
| Artist: | Zao Wou-Ki (1920 - 2013) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Western Europe, France, Asia, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Zao Wou-Ki (1920 - 2013) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Contemporary art |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Western Europe, France, Asia, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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