Lot 755
  • 755

ZAO WOU-KI | 12.12.67

Estimate
4,800,000 - 6,800,000 HKD
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Description

  • Zao Wou-Ki
  • 12.12.67
  • signed in Pinyin and Chinese; signed in Pinyin, titled and dated 12.12.67 on the reverselabels of Frank Perls Gallery and San Francisco Museum of Art affixed to the stretcher on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 73 cm by 60 cm; 28 ¾ by 23 ⅝ in. 

Provenance

Collection of Frank Perls
Private American Collection
Ader-Picard-Tajan, Paris, 19 June 1989, Lot 105
Private European Collection
Sotheby's, Paris, 7 December 2011, Lot 21
Important Private Asian Collection

Exhibited

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Painting by Zao Wou-Ki, May 8 - June 16 1968
Beverly Hills, Frank Perls Gallery, Zao Wou-Ki, 1968

Literature

Jean Leymarie, ed., Zao Wou-Ki, Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona / Editions Hier et Demain, Paris, 1978, plate 359, p. 293
Jean Leymarie, ed., Zao Wou-Ki, Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1979, plate 359, p. 293
Jean Leymarie, ed., Zao Wou-Ki, Cercle d'Art, Barcelona/Paris, 1986, plate 390, p. 333

Condition

The work is overall in good condition. There are some minor spots of paint loss at the edge of the lower right border. There is no sign of restoration under UV light examination.
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Catalogue Note

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Fondation Zao Wou-Ki
This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné currently being prepared by Françoise Marquet and Yann Hendgen (Information provided by Fondation Zao Wou-Ki)