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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 5, 2019 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Modern Art Evening Sale | 1021 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | 21.04.59 |
paintings
130 x 162 cm (51.18 x 63.78 in)
oil on canvas
Locarno Casa Rusca Pinacoteca comunale exhibition labels affixed to the stretcher on the reverse signed in Chinese and Pinyin, dated 59; signed in Pinyin and dated 21 Avril 59 on the reverse
Collection of the artist
Estate of the artist
Acquired directly from the above by the present important private European collector
Neuchâtel, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Zao Wou-Ki, 1973, No. 3
Montauban, Musée Ingres, Zao Wou-Ki ou se libérer du connu, 1983, No. 11
Taipei, National Museum of History, Zao Wou-Ki, 5-26 January 1983, No. 7
Tours, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Zao Wou-Ki: Huiles, encres de Chine et estampes, 1 December 1990 - 17 February 1991, No. 3
Lisbon, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Zao Wou-Ki. Óleos-Aguadas, 1992
Arras, Centre culturel Noroit-Arras, Zao Wou-Ki Retrospective: Peintures 1955-1992, 1992
Taipei, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Zao Wou-Ki Retrospective, 27 February - 30 May 1993
Mexico City, Fundación Cultural Televisa, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Zao Wou-Ki, Cuarenta Años de Pintura (1954-1994), 3 March - 30 May 1994
Pérouges, La Maison du prince, Zao Wou-Ki, 1994, No. 3
Saragosse, Centro de exposiciones y congresos, la Iber-Caja de Ahorros, Zao Wou-Ki, Retrospectiva, 14 March - 12 April 1995
Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, A Retrospective of Zao Wou-Ki, January - April 1996
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Infinite Image and Space. A retrospective of Zao Wou-Ki, 3 May - 28 July 1996
Ginals, Abbaye de Beaulieu-en-Rouergue, Centre d'art contemporain, La Nouvelle Ecole de Paris, 1941-1965, 22 June - 30 September 2002
Montpellier, Musée Fabre, Hommages de Zao Wou-Ki, 3 July – 3 October 2004
Biarritz, Espace Bellevue, Zao Wou-Ki – Peintures et encres de Chine – 1948-2005, 2005
Locarno, Casa Rusca, Pinacoteca comunale, Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013): Retrospettiva, 12 September 2013 - 6 January 2014
Jean Laude, Zao Wou-Ki, La Connaissance, Brussles, 1974, p. 40
Jean Leymarie, ed., Zao Wou-Ki, Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona / Editions Hier et Demain, Paris, 1978, plate 74, p. 124
Jean Leymarie, ed., Zao Wou-Ki, Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1979, plate 74, p. 124
Jean Leymarie, ed., Zao Wou-Ki, Cercle d'Art, Barcelona / Paris, 1986, plate 74, p. 124
Daniel Abadie and Martine Contensou, Zao Wou-Ki, Ars Mundi, 1988, plate 17
Daniel Abadie, Zao Wou-Ki, Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, 1989, plate 17
Zao Wou-Ki, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 1992, plate 3
Zao Wou-Ki Retrospective: Peintures 1955-1992, Centre culturel Noroit-Arras, Arras, 1992, p. 8
Zao Wou-Ki Retrospective, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 1993, p. 50
Zao Wou-Ki, Cuarenta Años de Pintura (1954-1994), Mexico City, Fundación Cultural Televisa, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, 1994, plate 5, p. 77
Zao Wou-Ki Retrospectiva, Centro de Exposiciones y Congresos, la Iber-Caja de Ahorros, Saragosse, 1995, plate 5, p. 15
A Retrospective of Zao Wou-Ki, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, 1995, p. 36, 128
Infinite Image and Space. A retrospective of Zao Wou-Ki, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1996, plate 31, p. 97
Zao Wou-Ki : Peintures et encres de Chine, 1948-2005, Hazan / Biarritz, Paris, 2005, plate 20, p. 54
Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013): Retrospettiva, Città di Locarno, Servizi culturali, Locarno, 2013, p. 91
Lisbon Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Mexico City Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Ginals Abbaye de Beaulieu-en-Rouergue, Locarno Casa Rusca Pinacoteca comunale exhibition labels affixed to the stretcher on the reverse
signed in Chinese and Pinyin, dated 59; signed in Pinyin and dated 21 Avril 59 on the reverse
oil on canvas
130 by 162 cm; 51 ⅛ by 63 ¾ in.
