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Etching No. 118

Zao Wou-ki

Gilden's Art Gallery (IFPDA) United Kingdom

Artwork details

Artist

Zao Wou-ki

Title

Etching No. 118

Description

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

Title: Etching No. 118, 1959

Technique: Original Hand Signed, Numbered and Dated Etching and Aquatint in Colours on Wove Paper

Paper size: 50 x 65.5 cm. / 19.7 x 25.8 in.

Image size: 39.5 x 45.5 cm. / 15.6 x 17.9 in.

Additional Information: This original etching and aquatint in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist in Chinese and Pinyin at the lower right margin and dated in pencil next to the signature '59’ [1959]. It is also hand numbered from the edition of 95, at the lower left margin. This work was printed by Robert Dutrou, Paris in 1959 and published by La Hune, Paris in the same year.

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

Reference: Ågerup 118

Condition: Very good condition. The sheet is lightly and evenly toned throughout. Soft handling creases in the margins.

Date

1959

Medium

Etching

Edition

Signature

Signed

Sheet

50 x 65.5 cm

Status

Available

Price

$11,000.00

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.