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

Lot 829
03.04.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Starting price
CNY 20 000 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1399742
Lot 829 | ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)
Estimate value
CNY 20 000 000 – 30 000 000
ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)
Zitterlein
signed in Chinese, signed again and dated ‘ZAO 56’ (lower left); signed, titled and dated ‘ZAO WOU-KI zitterlein 1956’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
54 x 65 cm. (21 1/4 x 25 5/8 in.)
Painted in 1956




Provenance

Galerie de France, Paris
Private collection, Switzerland
Private collection, Sweden
Auktionsverk Stockholm, 7 November 2002, lot 955
Galerie Ivana de Gavardie, Paris
Rambaud Collection, Paris
Sotheby’s Paris, 3 June 2021, lot 2
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Literature

F. Marquet-Zao & Y. Hendgen (ed.), Catalogue raisonne des peintures Zao Wou-Ki Volume 1 1935-1958, Flammarion, Paris, 2019 (illustrated, plate P-0494, p. 231, 320).



Further Details

This work is referenced in the archive of the Foundation Zao Wou-Ki. This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Zao Wou-Ki on 14 March 2003.
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