Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013)
Untitled
Oil on canvas
1949
38 x 55 cm / 15 x 21 3/4 in
Signed in chinese lower right
Marked at the back : Room 43 Hôtel des écoles, 15 rue Delembre Zao Wou-Ki
This is the first oil on canvas ZAO Wou-Ki painted in France, when he arrived in Paris in 1949.
Provenance :
– Collection Honoré Toscan, Nice, circa 1955
– Collection Geay, Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat
– Collection Jean-Marc Michali
– Michali Gallery, Palm Beach
Literature: – Zao Wou-Ki, Catalogue Raisonne des Peintures, Francoise Marquet-Zao and Yann Hendgen, Flammarion Paris 2019, Volume I, reproduit p. 76 et p.273 Ref. P-0076
Certificat par ZAO Wou-Ki.
Photo of ZAO Wou-Ki with the painting, the first oil on canvas he painted when he arrived in Paris in 1949 (© Jean-Marc Michali):
©Jean-Marc Michali