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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 26, 2024 | Christie's | Hong Kong | 20th/21st Century Evening Sale | 9 | $****** - ****** | 05.06.80 - Triptyque |
paintings
195 x 390 cm (76.77 x 153.54 in)
oil on canvas (triptych)
signed in Chinese and signed ‘ZAO" (lower right of panel III);
signed, titled, inscribed and dated ‘ZAO WOU-KI Triptyque I 195 x 390 5.6.80." (on the reverse of panel I);; signed, titled, inscribed and dated ‘ZAO WOU-KI Triptyque II 5.6.80 195 x 390." (on the reverse of panel II);
signed, titled, inscribed and dated ‘ZAO WOU-KI Triptyque III 5.6.80 195 x 390" (on the reverse of panel III)
The Artist
Artcurial centre d"art plastique contemporain, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)
Private collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1988)
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Zao Wou-Ki : Peintures, encres de Chine, 12 June - 10 August 1981.
Fukuoka, Fukuoka Art Museum, Zao Wou-Ki: Peintures, encres de Chine, 6 - 21 October 1981. This exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Grand Art Gallery, 13 - 18 November 1981; Fukui, Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, 27 February - 22 March 1982; Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, 30 March - 9 May 1982; Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura , 16 May - 20 June 1982.
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Zao Wou-Ki, 1982.
Beijing, The National Art Museum of China, Zao Wou-Ki, September 1983. This exhibition later travelled to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art), 1983.
Aix-en-Provence, Galerie de la Prévoté, Zao Wou-Ki : oeuvres récentes, 1986.
Paris, Artcurial centre d"art plastique contemporain, Zao Wou-Ki 1955-1988, September - November 1988.
Zao Wou-Ki : Peintures, encres de Chine, exh. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1981 (illustrated, unpaged).
Zao Wou-Ki: Peintures, encres de Chine, exh. cat., Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka; Grand Art Gallery, Tokyo; Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui; The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Kyoto; The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura, Kamakura, 1981-1982 (illustrated & listed, plate 46, unpaged).
Paintings Zao Wou-Ki, exh. cat., Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 1982 (illustrated, unpaged).
Zao Wou-Ki, exh. cat., The National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art), Hangzhou, 1983 (listed, unpaged).
J. Leymarie, Zao Wou-Ki, Updated Edition, Editions Cercle d"Art, Paris, and Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1986 (illustrated, plate 230, p. 282-283).
Zao Wou-Ki 1955-1988, exh. cat., Artcurial centre d"art plastique contemporain, Paris, 1988 (illustrated, p. 22-23; listed, p. 45).
Y. Bonnefoy & G. de Cortanze (ed.), Zao Wou-Ki, La Différence / Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1998 (illustrated, p. 192).
R. Lesgards, Zao Wou-Ki : Couleurs et Mots, Le Cherche-Midi Éditeur, Paris, 1998 (illustrated, p. 43).
D. de Villepin, F. Marquet, Y. Hendgen, Zao Wou-Ki - Oeuvres 1935-2008, Flammarion, Paris, 2009, 2012 and 2017 (illustrated, p. 226-227).
D. de Villepin, F. Marquet, Y. Hendgen, Zao Wou-Ki - Oeuvres 1935-2008, Kwai Fung Art Publishing House, Hong Kong, 2010 (illustrated, p. 226-227).
R. Lesgards, Zao Wou-Ki : Couleurs et Mots, Le Cherche-Midi Éditeur, Paris, 2013 (illustrated, p. 46-47).
ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)
05.06.80 - Triptyque
signed in Chinese and signed ‘ZAO" (lower right of panel III);
signed, titled, inscribed and dated ‘ZAO WOU-KI Triptyque I 195 x 390 5.6.80." (on the reverse of panel I);
signed, titled, inscribed and dated ‘ZAO WOU-KI Triptyque II 5.6.80 195 x 390." (on the reverse of panel II);
signed, titled, inscribed and dated ‘ZAO WOU-KI Triptyque III 5.6.80 195 x 390" (on the reverse of panel III)
oil on canvas (triptych)
each: 195 x 130 cm. (76 3/4 x 51 1/8 in.) (3)
overall: 195 x 390 cm. (76 3/4 x 153 1/2 in.)
Painted in 1980
