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Zao Wou-Ki (Zhao Wuji)
Description
- Zao Wou-Ki (Zhao Wuji)
- 25.05.70THIS IS A PREMIUM LOT. CLIENTS WHO WISH TO BID ON PREMIUM LOTS MAY BE REQUESTED BY SOTHEBY'S TO COMPLETE THE PRE-REGISTRATION APPLICATION FORM AND TO DELIVER TO SOTHEBY'S A DEPOSIT OF HK$1,000,000, OR SUCH OTHER HIGHER AMOUNT AS MAY BE DETERMINED BY SOTHEBY'S, AND ANY FINANCIAL REFERENCES, GUARANTEES AND/OR SUCH OTHER SECURITY AS SOTHEBY'S MAY REQUIRE IN ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION AS SECURITY FOR THEIR BID. THE BIDnow ONLINE BIDDING SERVICE IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR PREMIUM LOTS.
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Galeria Di Prove, Lisbon
Private Collection, Lisbon
Important Private European Collection
Exhibited
Paris, La Fondation Mercedes-Benz, Exposition "Formes en puissance," March 9 – April 9, 1971
Lisbon, Galeria Di Prove, Zao Wou-Ki Solo Exhibition, 1974
Lisbon, Fundação Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva, Zao Wou-Ki, June 24 – September 26, 2010
Literature
Exposition "Formes en Puissance," La Foundatin Mercedes-Benz, 1971
Lisbon, Galeria Di Prove, Zao Wou-Ki Solo Exhibition, Galeria Di Prove, 1974
Jean Leymarie, ed., Zao Wou-Ki, Hier et Demain, Barcelona, 1978, plate 161, p. 213, illustrated in colour
Zao Wou-Ki Solo Exhibition, Galeria Di Prove, Lisbon, 1974, plate 12, illustrated in colour
Jean Leymarie, ed., Zao Wou-ki, Polígrafa, Barcelona, 1979, plate 161, p. 213, illustrated in colour
Jean Leymarie, ed., Zao Wou-Ki, Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1979, plate 161, p. 213, illustrated in colour
Jean Leymarie, ed., Zao Wou-Ki, Cercle d'Art, Barcelona, 1986, plate 161, illustrated in colour
Jean Leymarie, ed., Zao Wou-Ki, Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1986, plate 161, illustrated in colour
Zao Wou-Ki, Fundação Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva, Lisbon, 2010, p. 32, 33, illustrated in colour
Condition
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Catalogue Note
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Archives Zao Wou-Ki.
"Zao Wou-Ki also left the practical world. However his paintings have kept a certain amount of similarity with nature. It is here. It is not here. What we see cannot be it. It should be though...... Through nature Zao Wou-Ki moves, shows himself, is depressed, revives, falls down, gets back on the horse, is enthusiastic...... In Zao Wou-Ki's paintings, whose size is sometimes gigantic, suitable to the dimension of his current feelings, there are more and more powerful assumptions of dirt – a magnifying transfer. Enormous masses must take off when time comes."
Henri Michaux