Lot 5193
  • 5193

Zao Wou-Ki (Zhao Wuji)

Estimate
120,000 - 240,000 HKD
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Description

  • Zao Wou-Ki (Zhao Wuji)
  • Illustrations for Paris Poems
  • signed in Pinyin and Chinese, dated 1950, and dedicated to Bernard Dorival, curator of the Musée National d'Art Moderne
  • lithograph
executed in 1950, this work is number 9 from an edition of 77
a book set of six lithographs

Provenance

Collection of Bernard Dorival
Private European Collection

Exhibited

Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, The Prints of Zao Wou-Ki, November 22, 1954 - January 4, 1955
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Zao Wou-Ki: Estampes et livres illustrés, June 3 - August 24, 2008
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Paris · Chinese Painting: Legacy of the 20th Century Chinese Masters, June 20 - September 21, 2014

Literature

The Prints of Zao Wou-Ki, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 1954, plate 23 (D)
Nesto Jacometti, ed., Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravée et lithographiée de Zao Wou-Ki, 1949 – 1954, Edition Gutenkunst & Klipstein, Bern, 1955, plate 25, p. 37 (D)
Yves Rivière, ed., Zao Wou-Ki Les estampes 1937 - 1974, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, Paris, 1975, plate 43-49, pp. 32-34
Jørgen Ågerup, ed., Zao Wou-Ki: The Graphic Work, A Catalogue Raisonné 1937 - 1995, Edition Heede & Moestrup, Copenhagen, 1995, plate 42-47, pp. 38-39, 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 9, illustrated in colour (D)
Paris · Chinese Painting: Legacy of the 20th Century Chinese Masters, Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong, 2014, plate 72, p. 196, illustrated in colour

Condition

A: There are wrinkling of pages, the corners are slightly torn and the edges are ruffled .B: There are wrinkling of pages, and the edges are ruffled.C: There are wrinkling of pages, and the edges are ruffled.D: There are wrinkling of pages, and the edges are ruffled.E: There are wrinkling of pages, and the edges are ruffled.F: There are wrinkling of pages, and the edges are ruffled.
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