"Hommage a Nobutaka Shikanai, " Zao Wou-Ki, Abstract Lithograph Mid-century Print
By Zao Wou-Ki
Located in New York, NY
Zao Wou-Ki (1920 - 2013)
Hommage a Nobutaka Shikanai - 1991, (Agerup 354)
Color lithograph on BFK Rives watermarked paper, full margins
24 x 18 1/4 inches
Signed and titled in the sheet
Published by Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
Zao (Zhao) Wou Ki combines Oriental landscape abstraction with French influence. He was born in Beijing on February 13, 1921, and from the age of ten, Zao drew and painted with great freedom. He learned from his grandfather that calligraphy is an art when it transmits an emotion to the person looking at it. At age fourteen he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, where he remained for six years. He studied and then taught at the Hongchow National Academy of Fine Arts. In 1942, he organized an exhibition of works by his teacher, Wu Dayu, along with some of his own.
In 1948, he moved to Paris where he has lived and worked ever since, although he has exhibited in New York City. He attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and lived at Rue du Moulin Vert nearby Alberto Giacometti's studio. Making the acquaintance of Hans Hartung, Nicolas de Staël, Pierre Soulages, Viera da Silva...
Category
1990s Abstract Sandor Bortnyik Art
MaterialsPaper, Lithograph