Lot 633
  • 633

Zao Wou-Ki (Zhao Wuji)

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 HKD
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Description

  • Zao Wou-Ki (Zhao Wuji)
  • A and B: Sans titre; C: À la gloire de l'image et de l'art poétique (In honour of the picture and of poetry) [Three Works]
  • lithograph / etching with aquatint / lithograph
A: signed in pinyin and Chinese, dated 89 and numbered 40/75
executed in 1989, this work is number 40 from an edition of 75.
B: signed in pinyin and Chinese, dated 78 and inscribed E. A.
executed in 1978, this work is an artist's proof.
C: signed in pinyin and Chinese, dated 76 and numbered 12/99
executed in 1976, this work is number 12 from an edition of 99.

Provenance

Private Asian Collection

Literature

Jørgen Ågerup, ed., Zao Wou-Ki: The Graphic Work, A Catalogue Raisonné 1937 - 1995, Edition Heede & Moestrup, Copenhagen, 1995, plate 338, p. 188 (A); plate 302A, p. 168 (B); plate 279, p. 155 (C), illustrated in colour

Condition

The three works are in excellent condition.
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