ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)

Les Attiseurs (The Guardian of The Flame)

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ZAO WOU-KI (ZHAO WUJI, 1920-2013)
Les Attiseurs (The Guardian of The Flame)
signed in Chinese, signed again and dated 'ZAO 55' (lower right); signed, titled, and dated 'ZAO WOU-KI Les Attiseurs 1955' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
46 × 55 cm. (18 1/8 x 21 5/8 in.)
Painted in 1955

Myriam Prévot, Paris
Private collection, Brussels
Sotheby’s Paris, 11 December 2008, lot 172
Private collection, France
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Claude Roy, Zao Wou-Ki, Editions George Fall and Le Musee de Poche, Paris, 1957 (illustrated, p. 23).
Claude Roy, Zao Wou-Ki, Grove Press, Inc., New York & Evergreen Books, Ltd., London, 1959 (illustrated, p. 21).
Zao Wou-Ki, Museum Folkwang, Essen, 1965 (illustrated, no. 8, fig. 3).
Claude Roy, Jacques Goldschmidt and Le Musee de Poche, Paris, 1970 (illustrated, p. 29).
Zao Wou-Ki, Lion Art, no. 13, Taipei, March 1972, (illustrated, p.15).
Dominique de Villepin, Zao Wou-Ki, Flammarion, Paris, 2009 (illustrated, p. 110).
Dominique de Villepin, Zao Wou-Ki, Abbeville Press, New York, 2018 (illustrated, p. 110).
F. Marquet-Zao & Y. Hendgen, Catalogue raisonne des peintures Zao Wou-Ki Volume 1 1935-1958, Flammarion, Paris, 2019 (illustrated, plate P-0453, p. 211 & p. 315).

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