Live Auction 2213810th Shanghai Auction Anniversary: 20th/21st Century Art Evening Sale
ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920 – 2013)
Lot 111

ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920 – 2013)

Lotus Flowers

Closed23 September 2023

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CNY 10,948,000

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ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920 – 2013)
Lotus Flowers
signed in Chinese and signed ‘ZAO’ (lower right); titled ‘Lotus Flowers’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
38 x 46 cm. (15 x 18 1/8 in.)
Painted in 1952

Private collection
Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei
Private collection, Asia
Ravenel Taipei, 6 December 2009, lot 36
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

"These motifs took on shapes, while their backgrounds began to take on spatial depth, and as I repainted them again and again, discarding previous work and starting over, things that were deep in my mind began to surface." --Zao Wou-Ki