Hommage a Nobutaka Shikanai
Artwork details
- Artist
- Zao Wou-ki
- Title
- Hommage a Nobutaka Shikanai
- Date
- 1991
- Medium
- Etching
- Edition
- 2757
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Agerup 354
- Dimensions
- 76 x 65 cm
- Status
- Sold
Influenced by the works of Matisse, Picasso, Paul Klee and Cézanne, Zao Wou-ki’s distinctive paintings were abstract in style. He used vivid colour palettes alongside light and dark areas in his work to produce intense big-bang-like images. Zao studied calligraphy in his hometown Dantu, and later, painted at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou under Fang Ganmin and Wu Dayu.