Name: ZAO WOU-KI (1920-2013)
Brand: Flore et Faune
Price: 3500.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

ZAO WOU-KI (1920-2013)
Flore et Faune
signed in Chinese and English and numbered ‘75/200 ZAO’ (lower edge)
etching with aquatint
image: 12 ⅜ x 19 ¼ in. (31.5 x 48.8 cm.)
sheet: 14 ⅞ x 22 ⅜ in. (37.8 x 56.8 cm.)
Executed in 1951. This work is number 75 from an edition of 200.

Private collection, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner

N. Jacometti, ed., Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravée et lithographiée de Zao Wou-Ki, 1949-1954, Berne, 1955, p. 48, pl. 36 (another example illustrated).
Arts et Metiers Graphiques, Zao Wou-Ki Les estampes 1937-1974, Paris, 1975, p. 41, pl. 66 (another example illustrated).
Edition Heede & Moestrup, Zao Wou-Ki: The Graphic Work, A Catalogue Raisonné 1937-1995, Copenhagen, 1994, p. 48, pl. 64 (another example illustrated).

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"My painting became unreadable, still-lives and flowers no longer existed. I was tending towards an imaginary, indecipherable writing." – Zao Wou-ki