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ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, FRANCE/CHINA, 1920-2013)
Lot 214

ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, FRANCE/CHINA, 1920-2013)

UNTITLED

Closed21 September 2019

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CNY 420,000

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ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, FRANCE/CHINA, 1920-2013)
UNTITLED
signed in Chinese, signed and dated ‘ZAO 82’ (lower right)
watercolour on paper
23.7 × 21 cm. (9 3/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
Painted in 1982

Galerie Kutter, Luxembourg
Private Collection, Europe
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Fondation Zao Wou-Ki, dated 11 October 2013.

Specialist note

"In my mind I often wonder, How can I paint the wind? How can I express the brightness and purity of light? What I want is not to depict nature, but to juxtapose and arrange images, to let people feel the air rippling across the serene surface of the water. I want to create new colors, new spaces, a new kind of lightness. I want people to feel those fresh, light, shimmering sensations."
—— Zao Wou-Ki