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Zao Wou-KiUntitled1995
1995
$166,011.19
£123,739.43
€140,000
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CHF 133,094.16
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A magnificent work in Indian ink and "levi" ink, counter glued on strong paper and accompanied by a certificate from the Zao Wou-Ki Foundation.
Zao Wou-Ki was born in Beijing on 1 February 1920. A few months later, his family moved to Shanghai. The T'chao family belonged to the ancient Song dynasty (10th-13th centuries AD). T'chao Wou-Ki - Wou-Ki being his first name - chose the pseudonym Zao Wou-Ki on his arrival in France. In 1967, he took part in the French Pavilion at the International Exhibition in Montreal, Canada. He then crossed North America before staying in Mexico with the painter Rufino Tamayo and his wife Olga, whom he had met in 1950. As part of the Salzburg Music Festival, Zao Wou-Ki directed the summer seminar created by the painter Oskar Kokoschka.
Zao Wou-Ki also took part in numerous group exhibitions: ‘Peinture non figurative de la seconde école de Paris’, 1946-1962. ‘101 Masterpieces from the Gandur Foundation for Art’ at the Musée Rath in Geneva and “Abstraction picturale, 1949-1969: Selected works from the Guggenheim collections” at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. The exhibition ‘Chinese Artists in Paris, 1920-1958. From Lin Fengmian to Zao Wou-Ki’ at the Musée Cernuschi in Paris traces Zao Wou-Ki's beginnings in Paris, in the context of twentieth-century exchanges between France and China.
Zao Wou-Ki liked to say, ‘I like people to walk through my paintings as I walk through them myself when I make them’.
Commander of the National Order of Merit and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Zao Wou-Ki was admitted to the Académie française in 2002.
localized works :
Piazza (1950), hst[78], 146 × 97 cm, preserved at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris[46] and Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris
Entrance to the Fort (1953), hst, 130 × 162 cm Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York[79]
Wind (1954), hst, 146 × 97 cm, Musée national d'Art Moderne, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou[47],[80]
Sunny Pavilion (1954-1955), hst, 162 × 130 cm, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro[48]
Black Crowd (1955), hst, 116 × 89 cm, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh[45]
Mistral (1957), hst, 130 × 195 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York[49]
Wind and Dust (1957), hst, 200 × 162 cm, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge (Massachusetts)[50]
Painting 1958 (1958), hst, 162 × 130 cm Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington[81]
Composition 1958 (1958), hst, 130 × 162 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (Illinois)[82]
The Other Side of the Eyelids (1963), hst, 162 × 200 cm, Folkwang Museum, Essen, (Germany)[83]
May 4, 1964, 1964 (1964), hst, 200 × 260 cm, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris[84]
6.01.68, 1968 (1968), hst, 260 × 200 cm, Musée d'Art moderne de Paris[85]
9.11.71, 1971 (1971), hst, 200 × 162 cm, Consulate General of France, on deposit of the National Fund for Contemporary Art, Hong Kong[86]
In Memory of May (1972), hst, 200 × 525 cm, in tribute to his deceased second wife, Musée national d'Art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris[62],[63]
10.03.73,1973 (1973), hst, 200 × 162 cm, Musée national d'art moderne, Osaka, Japan
13.09.73, 1973 (1973), hst, 200 × 162 cm, Musée Ingres, Montauban
Triptych, Homage to André Malraux, 1976, hst, 200 × 524 cm, Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone Japan[65]
7.04.80, 1980 (1980), hst, 162 × 130 cm, French Embassy in Beijing, on loan from the National Fund for Contemporary Art[87]
1.04.81, 1981 (1981), hst, 260 × 225 cm, Musée national d'Art moderne, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou[88]
4.01.82, 1982 (1982), hst, 130 × 162 cm, French Oil Company[89]
20.03.84, 1984, hst, 260 × 200 cm, FNAC[90]
April-September 87, 1987, hst, 280 × 400 cm, École normale supérieure de Lyon[91]
May-August 90, 1990, hst, 260 × 200 cm, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan[92]
06/30/92, 1992, hst, 162 × 130 cm, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts[93]
1.04.93, 1993, hst, 162 × 130 cm, Fundacio Cultural Televisa, Mexico[94 (source wikipedia)
- Creator:Zao Wou-Ki (1921, Chinese)
- Creation Year:1995
- Dimensions:Height: 40.56 in (103 cm)Width: 41.34 in (105 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:with frame 137 x 139 cmPrice: $166,011
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- Condition:Tear at top left, five by two cm, missing part, 1 cm by 1 cm of the corner.
- Gallery Location:PARIS, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2846216089332
Zao Wou-Ki
Zao Wou-Ki was born in Beijing, China, on February 13, 1921, to a wealthy family descended from the Song Dynasty.
French-educated Chinese artist Lin Fengmian was Wou-Ki’s teacher at the China Academy of Art from 1935–41 and encouraged him to study abroad in Paris. Wou-Ki made the move in 1948 with a substantial amount of financial backing and later adopted France as his new home, remaining in the country, besides a few short trips abroad, until his death.
In Paris, Wou-Ki quickly joined a large postwar French art circle, composed of key writers, poets, painters and cultural figures, including Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Riopelle and Vieira da Silva, among others. This networking helped position himself at the top of the Lyrical Abstraction movement. By his mid-30s, Wou-Ki had decided to devote his artistic career to abstract painting that blended Eastern and Western stylistic traditions.
In 2011, Wou-Ki was referred to in art publications as the top-selling living Chinese artist. He died in Nyon, Switzerland, on April 9, 2013, at the age of 93.
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