ZAO Wou-ki
Chinese-French 1920 - 2013
Born in Beijing in 1920, Zao Wou-ki began his artistic studies under the direction of Lin Fengmian at the Hangzhou School of Fine Arts in 1935 at the age of 15. After graduating in 1941, he was appointed assistant professor at the school where he taught until 1947. The following year, Zao Wou-ki moved to Paris, where he took courses at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and encountered Western artistic movements such as European Lyrical Abstraction. The artist developed his abstract style throughout the 1950s alongside fellow artists Alberto Giacometti and Joan Miró as well as American gallery owner Samuel Kootz. Zao Wou-ki has enjoyed various international exhibitions, representing France at the 40th International Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh in 1956 and the Venice Biennial in 1960, as well as receiving the Praemium Imperiale Award of Painting, Japan in 1994. In 2002 he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris and in 2006 was elevated to the decorated position of Grand Officier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur by the President of France.
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24.09.99
1999
Oil on canvas
162 x 130 cm
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Estimate
80,000,000 - 120,000,000 20,566,000 - 30,848,000 2,630,700 - 3,946,100 18,182,000 - 27,273,000
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Sold Price
86,560,000 21,969,543 2,807,655 19,495,495
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Proustiennes
1991
Etching with aquatint, edition VI/VI; book edition HC 6/18
19.7 x 14 cm (print)
32.4 x 24 cm (book) |
Estimate
170,000 - 240,000 44,000 - 62,000 5,600 - 7,900 39,000 - 55,000
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Sold Price
180,000 45,685 5,838 40,541
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Randonnées (Rambles)
1974
Etching with aquatint, edition 27/125
24 x 18.5 cm (x5)
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Estimate
240,000 - 340,000 62,000 - 87,000 7,900 - 11,200 55,000 - 77,000
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Sold Price
336,000 85,279 10,898 75,676
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Red Sun
1949 - 1951
Oil on paper
14.2 x 20.5 cm
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Estimate
2,800,000 - 4,000,000 755,000 - 1,078,000 96,500 - 137,800 607,000 - 868,000
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Sold Price
3,000,000 789,474 100,536
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Sans titre
1977
Ink on paper
48 x 61 cm
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Estimate
5,500,000 - 7,000,000 1,482,000 - 1,887,000 189,500 - 241,100 1,193,000 - 1,518,000
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5.11.62
1962
Oil on canvas
80.5 x 116 cm
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Estimate
88,000,000 - 110,000,000 23,720,000 - 29,650,000 3,031,300 - 3,789,200 19,089,000 - 23,861,000
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Sold Price
153,760,000 40,463,158 5,152,815
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09.07.73
1973
Oil on canvas
100 x 81 cm
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Estimate
50,000,000 - 65,000,000 13,477,000 - 17,520,000 1,722,400 - 2,239,100 10,846,000 - 14,100,000
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Sold Price
58,560,000 15,410,526 1,962,466
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Beauregard
1981
Etching book, prints, edition no. 15/120
24 x 18 cm
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Estimate
240,000 - 340,000 65,000 - 92,000 8,300 - 11,700 52,000 - 74,000
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Sold Price
288,000 75,789 9,651
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09.02.60
1960
Oil on canvas
73 x 92 cm
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Estimate
60,000,000 - 70,000,000 15,544,000 - 18,135,000 1,992,700 - 2,324,800
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Sold Price
60,800,000 15,833,333 2,025,316
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Sans titre
1948
Oil on canvas
46 x 38 cm
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Estimate
11,000,000 - 18,000,000 2,828,000 - 4,627,000 364,500 - 596,400
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Sold Price
13,200,000 3,419,689 438,684
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