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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 1, 2021 | Christie's | Hong Kong | 20th/21st Century Art Evening Sale | 40 | $****** - ****** | Sans titre (Bateaux au claire de la lune) (Untitled (Ships in the Moonlight) |
paintings
105 x 120 cm (41.34 x 47.24 in)
oil on canvas
signed in Chinese and signed ‘ZAO’ (lower right)
Patti Birch Gallery, New York
Harrold B. Cohen Collection, New York
Sotheby's New York, 18 January 1980
Private Collection
Pierre Hubert Gallery, Geneva
Private Collection, Switzerland
Sotheby's London, 10 February 2005, lot 27
Private Collection, Asia
Christie's Hong Kong, 24 May 2009, lot 530
Private Collection, Europe
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 April 2017, lot 1003
Private collection, Asia
This work is referenced in the archive of the Fondation Zao Wou-Ki.
Minneapolis, The Walker Art Center, School of Paris, 1959
Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Zao Wou-Ki, October - December 2003.
P. Daix (ed.), Ides et Calendes, Zao Wou-ki, Paris, 1994 (illustrated, p.78).
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Zao Wou-Ki, exh. cat., Paris, 2003 (illustrated, p. 68).
D. de Villepin, F. marquet, Y. Hendgen (ed.), Kwai Fung Art Publishing House, Zao Wou-Ki 1935-2008, Hong Kong, 2010 (illustarted, p.87).
F. Marquet-Zao & Y. Hendgen (ed.), Flammarion, Catalogue raisonne des peintures Zao Wou-Ki Volume 1 1935-1958, Paris, France, 2019 (illustrated, plate P-0269, p. 143 & p. 295).
ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920 - 2013)
Sans titre (Bateaux au claire de la lune) (Untitled (Ships in the Moonlight)
signed in Chinese and signed ‘ZAO’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
105 x 120 cm. (41 3/8 x 47 1/4 in.)
Painted in 1952
