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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 29, 2024 | Christie's | Hong Kong | 20th Century Day Sale | 211 | $****** - ****** | 08.02.64-26.01.71 | |||
Oct 27, 1992 | Cornette de Saint-Cyr | Paris | Contemporary Art | 58 | Estimates not disclosed | 8-2-64 26-1-71 |
paintings
65 x 100 cm (25.59 x 39.37 in)
oil on canvas
signed in Chinese and "Zao" (lower right); signed and dated "ZAO WOU-KI 8.2.64. 26.1.71." (on the reverse)
Kootz Gallery, New York
Private collection, France
Galerie de France, Paris
Private collection, Ivory Coast
Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris, 27 October 1992, lot 58
Private collection, France (acquired at the above sale by the previous owner)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Avignon, Galerie Philippe Ducastel, Zao Wou-Ki. Peintures récentes, aquarelles et lithographies, 7 July - 15 August 1971.
Neuchâtel, Musée d"Art et d"Histoire, Zao Wou-Ki. Peintures, 17 March - 20 May 1973.
J. Leymarie (ed), Zao Wou-Ki, Documentation by Francoise Marquet, Editions Hier et Demain, Paris, 1978 (illustrated with incomplete title, plate 329, p. 289).
J. Leymarie (ed), Zao Wou-Ki, Documentation by Francoise Marquet, Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1979 (illustrated with incomplete title, plate 329, p. 289).
J. Leymarie (ed), Zao Wou-Ki, Documentation by Francoise Marquet, Poligrafa, Barcelona, 1980 (illustrated with incomplete title, plate 329, p. 289).
J. Leymarie (ed.), Zao Wou-Ki, Documentation by Francoise Marquet (2 nd edition), Cercle d"Art Editions, Paris and Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1986 (illustrated with incomplete title, plate 361, p. 329).
Y. Bonnefoy & G. de Cortanze (ed.), Zao Wou-Ki, La Différence and Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1998 (illustrated, p. 134).
F. Marquet-Zao & Y. Hendgen, Zao Wou-Ki: Catalogue raisonne des peintures Volume II 1959-1974, Flammarion, Paris, 2023 (illustrated, plate P-1042, p. 222 & p. 319).
ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)
08.02.64-26.01.71
signed in Chinese and "Zao" (lower right); signed and dated "ZAO WOU-KI 8.2.64. 26.1.71." (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
65 x 100 cm. (25 5/8 x 39 3/8 in.)
Painted in February 1964-January 1971
