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Etching No. 187, from: The Skin of Things | La peau des choses

Zao Wou-ki

Gilden's Art Gallery (IFPDA) United Kingdom

Artwork details

Artist

Zao Wou-ki

Title

Etching No. 187, from: The Skin of Things | La peau des choses

Description

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 '693’ [1968]. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 114, at the lower left margin. This etching and aquatint was printed by Imprimerie Arte, Paris and published in a limited edition of 114 signed and numbered impressions by Jean-Robert Arnaud, Paris.

Note: This subject is one of ten published in the folio ‘La peau des choses’ [The Skin of Things] in 1968. The folio also included works by Huguette-Arthur Bertrand, Cesar, Émile Gilioli, James Guitet, Hans Hartung, John-Franklin Koenig, Gérard Schneider, Pierre Soulages and Victor Vasarely.

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

Reference: Ågerup 187

Condition: Very good condition. A pale band of time-staining along the lower sheet edge.

Date

1968

Medium

Lithograph

Edition

114

Signature

Signed

Catalogue Raisonne

Ågerup 187

Image

50.9 x 37.5 cm

Sheet

50.9 x 37.5 cm

Status

Available

Price

$8,000.00

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.