ZAO WOU-KI

ZAO WOU-KI
Chinese-French artist 1921 - 2013
" Abstract Composition "
Original Lithograph
Handsigned in pencil by the artist
Dedicated in pencil by the artist
Date : 1978
Catalogue Raisonné
Limited edition of 100 + a few HC.
Size without marges : 9,8 x 7,5 inches ( = 25 x 19 cm ).
Size with marges : 14,6 x 10,6 inches ( = 37 x 27 cm ).

Provenance : This lithograph was given by Zao Wou-Ki directly to the previous owner.

Zao's works, influenced by Paul Klee, are orientated to abstraction. He names them with the date in which he finishes them, and in them, masses of colours appear to materialise a creating world, like a big bang, where light structures the canvas. He worked formats in triptychs and diptychs. While his work was stylistically similar to the Abstract Expressionists whom he met while travelling in New York, he was influenced by Impressionism. Zao Wou-ki stated that he had been influenced by the works of Matisse, Picasso and Cézanne. His meetings with Henri Michaux pushed him to review his Indian ink techniques, always based in Chinese traditional drawings. Zao was a member of the Académie des beaux-arts, and was considered to have been one of the most successful Chinese painters during his lifetime.