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Engulfed Town | Ville engloutie

Zao Wou-ki

Gilden's Art Gallery (IFPDA) United Kingdom

Artwork details

Artist

Zao Wou-ki

Title

Engulfed Town | Ville engloutie

Description

ZAO WOU-KI 1921- 2013
Beijing 1921 -2013 Switzerland (Chinese)

Title: Engulfed Town | Ville engloutie, 1956

Technique: Original Hand Signed, Dated and Numbered Lithograph in Colours on BFK Rives Wove Paper

Paper size: 56 x 76 cm. / 22 x 30in.
Image size: 37 x 67.3 cm. / 14.6 x 26.5 in.

Additional Information: This original lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Zao Wou-Ki" in Chinese and Pinyin at the lower right margin.
It is also dated “56” [1956] next to the signature.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 60, at the lower left margin. There were also 12 artist’s proofs.
It was printed by E. and J. Desjobert, Paris and published by La Hune, Paris in 1956.
The paper bears the BFK Rives watermark in the lower margin.

Literature: Ågerup, J. (1994). Zao Wou-Ki - The Graphic Work - A Catalogue Raisonné 1937-1995. Copenhagen: Heede & Moestrup.
Reference: Ågerup 97

Condition: Very good condition. The upper sheet edge marginally reduced. Very pale, unobtrusive time staining around the image.

Date

1956

Medium

Lithograph

Edition

Signature

Signed

Sheet

56 x 76 cm

Price

$12,500.00

The Artist

Zao Wou-ki

About Zao Wou-Ki

Zao Wou-Ki (1921-2013) was born in Beijing and trained at the Hangzhou art academy before moving to Paris in 1948, where he became one of the leading figures of postwar lyrical abstraction. He took French citizenship in 1964. His work joins the Chinese ink tradition of landscape, space and breath to the colour and gesture of the School of Paris. Zao Wou-Ki prints carry that fusion into luminous, atmospheric compositions where forms seem to emerge from and dissolve into the paper.