Lot 659
  • 659

Zao Wou-Ki (Zhao Wuji)

Estimate
90,000 - 120,000 HKD
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Description

  • Zao Wou-Ki (Zhao Wuji)
  • À la gloire de l’image et Art poétique (In honour of the picture and of poetry)
  • lithograph
A: signed in Pinyin and Chinese, dated 76 and numbered 85/99
executed in 1976, this work is number 85 from an edition of 99.
B: signed in Pinyin and Chinese, dated 76 and inscribed E. A.
executed in 1976, this work is an artist's proof.

Provenance

Private American Collection

Exhibited

Taipei, Printmakers Art Gallery, Zao Wou-Ki, 1980 (B)

Literature

Yuan Dexing, ed., Zao Wou-Ki, Yuancheng Publishing Limited, Taipei, 1980, p. 37, illustrated in colour (B)
Jørgen Ågerup, ed., Zao Wou-Ki: The Graphic Work, A Catalogue Raisonné 1937 - 1995, Edition Heede & Moestrup, Copenhagen, 1995, plate 274, p. 153 (A); plate 279, p. 155 (B), illustrated in colour

Condition

Both works are in excellent condition.
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