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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 26, 2025 | Christie's | Hong Kong | 20th/21st Century Evening Sale | 22 | $****** - ****** | 17.3.63 |
paintings
130 x 97.2 cm (51.18 x 38.27 in)
oil on canvas
signed in Chinese and signed ‘ZAO" (lower right); signed and titled "ZAO WOU-KI 17.3.63. " (on the reverse)
Galerie de France, Paris
Private collection, Le Vésinet (acquired from the above)
Private collection, Luxembourg
De Sarthe Fine Art, Hong Kong (acquired from the above)
Private collection, Asia (acquired from the above in 2015)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Paris, Galerie de France, Zao Wou-Ki, 7 June-7 July 1963.
Essen, Folkwang Museum, Zao Wou-Ki, 17 January-21 February 1965.
Zao Wou-Ki, exh. cat., Galerie de France & The Redfern Gallery , Paris & London, 1963 (illustrated in black and white, plate 9, n.p.).
Zao Wou-Ki, exh. cat., Folkwang Museum , Essen, 1965 (listed, no.37, n.p.).
J. Leymarie, Zao Wou-Ki, Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona,1978 (illustrated, plate 99, p. 148; listed, p. 314).
J. Leymarie, Zao Wou-Ki, Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1979 (illustrated, plate 99, p. 148; listed, p. 314).
J. Leymarie, Zao Wou-Ki, Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1980 (illustrated, plate 99, p. 148; listed, p. 314).
J. Leymarie, Zao Wou-ki, Editions Cercle d"Art, Paris and Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1986 (illustrated, plate 99, p. 148; listed, p. 314).
D. Abadie & M. Contensou, Zao Wou-Ki, Editions Cercle d"Art, Paris, 1988 (illustrated, plate 24; listed, p. 127).
D. Abadie & M. Contensou, Zao Wou-Ki, Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1989 (illustrated, plate 24; listed, p. 127).
D. Abadie & M. Contensou, Zao Wou-Ki, Cultural Edition, Taipei, 1993 (illustrated, plate 24; listed, p. 127).
F. Marquet-Zao & Y. Hendgen, Zao Wou-Ki: Catalogue raisonné des peintures Volume II 1959-1974, Flammarion, Paris, 2023 (illustrated, plate P-0754, pp. 115 & 285).
ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)
17.3.63
signed in Chinese and signed ‘ZAO" (lower right); signed and titled "ZAO WOU-KI 17.3.63. " (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
130 x 97.2 cm. (51 1/8 x 38 1/4 in.)
Painted in 1963
