15.3.63.

Details

ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)
15.3.63.
signed in Chinese and signed ‘ZAO’ (lower right); signed, titled and dated ‘ZAO Wou-Ki 15.3.63.’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
16.5 x 22.2 cm. (6 1/2 x 8 ¾ in.)
Painted in 1963

Provenance

Galerie de France, Paris, 1968
Private Collection, US (Acquired at the above by the previous owner)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Further Details

This work is referenced in the archive of the Fondation Zao Wou-Ki and will be included in the artist's forthcoming catalogue raisonné prepared by Françoise Marquet and Yann Hendgen (Information provided by Fondation Zao Wou-Ki).

The successful buyer of this work will receive a certificate of authenticity from the Fondation Zao Wou-Ki.

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Lot Essay

“I sought to express the movement - its piercing slowness, or its brilliance - and I wanted to make the surface of the canvas vibrate with contrasts or with multiple reverberations of a single color. I was looking for a center which would glow: I painted with large gestures, sometimes using the palette knife as if to crush the canvas and make the color go further into the interior of the surface.” - ZAO WOU-KI

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