ID 1399877 
Lot 228  | ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)
Estimate value
HKD 7 500 000 – 9 500 000 
La Course de chevaux (Horse Racing)
signed in Chinese and signed ‘ZAO’ (lower right); signed, titled and dated 'ZAO WOU-KI La course de Chevaux Juin 1952' (on the reserve); signed in Chinese, signed again, inscribed, and dated ' pour Patti très amicalment ZAO 1952' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm. (23 5/8 x 28 3/4 in.)
Painted in June 1952
Provenance
Galerie Pierre Loeb, Paris
Cadby Birch Gallery, New York
Larry Aldrich, New York
Sotheby’s New York, 13 June 1978, lot 103
Private collection
Marc-Arthur Kohn, Paris, 1 June 1994, lot 98
Private collection
Christie's Hong Kong, 27 April 2003, lot 135
Private collection, Taiwan
Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2010, lot 1342
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
Contemporary Paintings Collected Since 1951 by Larry Aldrich, exh. cat., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, 1964 (listed, no. 69, p. 26).
F. Marquet-Zao & Y. Hendgen, Zao Wou-Ki: Catalogue raisonné des peintures, Volume I 1935-1958, Flammarion, Paris, 2019 (illustrated, plate 0281, p. 148, 296).
Exhibited
Champaign, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Krannert Art Museum, Contemporary Paintings Collected Since 1951 by Larry Aldrich, 16 February - 22 March 1964.
Further details
This work is referenced in the archive of the Foundation Zao Wou-Ki. A certificate of authenticity can be requested for the successful buyer.
| Artist: | Zao Wou-Ki (1920 - 2013) | 
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
| Artist: | Zao Wou-Ki (1920 - 2013) | 
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings | 
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