Lot 654
  • 654

Zao Wou-Ki (Zhao Wuji)

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 HKD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Zao Wou-Ki (Zhao Wuji)
  • Éloge des choses extrêmement légères (Eulogy on the Extremely Delicate Things)
  • a book set of five etchings with aquatint
signed in pinyin and Chinese and numbered 63 on the colophon
executed in 1993, this work is number 63 from an edition of 75.

Provenance

Private Asian Collection

Exhibited

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Zao Wou-Ki estampes et livres illustrés, June 3 - August 24, 2008

Literature

Jørgen Ågerup, ed., Zao Wou-Ki: The Graphic Work, A Catalogue Raisonné 1937-1995, Edition Heede & Moestrup, Copenhagen, 1995, plate 361 - 365, p. 199, illustrated in colour
Céline Chicha, Marie Minssieux-Chamonard, Hélène Trespeuch, ed., Zao Wou-Ki estampes et livres illustrés, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 2008, plate 72, p.124, illustrated in colour

Condition

The lithographs are in very good condition. There are a few very slight foxing on the first lithograph. There is a general foxing on some other pages.
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