ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013) 28.8.67

ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)
28.8.67
signed in Chinese and 'Zao' (lower right); signed and dated 'ZAO WOU-KI 28.8.67' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
89 x 116 cm. (35 x 45 5⁄8 in.)
Painted in 1967

Provenance
Galerie de France, Paris
Private collection, Paris (acquired from the above in 1972)
Ivoire Nantes, 23 March 2013, lot 40
De Sarthe, Hong Kong
Private collection, Asia (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature
J. Leymarie, Zao Wou-Ki, Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona,1978 (illustrated, plate 366, p. 294; listed, p. 318).
J. Leymarie, Zao Wou-Ki, Editions Hier et Demain, Paris, 1978 (illustrated, plate 366, p. 294; listed, p. 318).
J. Leymarie, Zao Wou-Ki, Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1979 (illustrated, plate 366, p. 294; listed, p. 318).
Y. Bonnefy & G. Cortanze, Zao Wou-Ki, La Difference/Enrico Navarra, Paris, 1998 (illustrated, p. 150; listed, p. 377).
F. Marquet-Zao & Y. Hendgen, Zao Wou-Ki: Catalogue raisonne des peintures Volume II 1959-1974, Flammarion, Paris, 2023 (illustrated, plate 0921, p. 176 & 305).