ID 965796
Lot 213 | ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)
Estimate value
HKD 6 000 000 – 8 000 000
Sans titre (City of Pearl)
signed in Chinese, signed ‘ZAO’ (lower right);
dated ‘2.1952’ (on the reverse);
signed again ‘ZAO WOU-KI’ (on the stretcher)oil on canvas
46 x 55.2 cm. (18 1/8 x 21 3/4 in.)
ZAO WOU-KI
Painted in 1952
Provenance
Galerie Pierre Loeb, Paris
Larry Aldrich collection, USA
Private collection, USA
Private collection, Taiwan
E.D.LEE Gallery, Taiwan
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Jean Leymarie, Zao Wou-Ki, Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1979 (illustrated, plate 245, p. 277).
Dominique de Villepin, Zao Wou-Ki: Works 1935-2008, Kwai Fung Art Publishing House, Hong Kong, 2010 (illustrated, p.93).
F. Marquet-Zao & Y. Hendgen (ed.), Flammarion, Catalogue raisonné des peintures Zao Wou-Ki volume 1 1935-1958, Paris, 2019 (illustrated, plate P-0265, p. 141 & p. 294).
Post lot text
This work is referenced in the archive of the Fondation Zao Wou-Ki.
| Artist: | Zao Wou-Ki (1920 - 2013) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Zao Wou-Ki (1920 - 2013) |
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