(1921-2013)
ZAO Wou-ki
Untitled, 1989
Etching and aquatint LCD8525
5 800.00€
ZAO Wou-ki
Untitled, 1974
Etching and aquatint LCD8507
2 800.00€
ZAO Wou-ki
Annonciation - Moment, 1995
Etching and aquatint LCD8420
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ZAO Wou-ki
Untitled, 1971
Etching and aquatint LCD6568
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Zao Wou-Ki was born on 13 February 1921 in Beijing, into a very old family whose origins date back to the Song Dynasty (10th–13th century). Two paintings by Zhao Mengfu and Mi Fu, preserved within the family collection, were displayed each year to celebrate the ancestors’ anniversaries. Throughout his life, Zao Wou-Ki regarded these masters among the greatest painters in Chinese art.
Raised in a cultivated environment deeply sensitive to the arts, he was introduced to calligraphy at an early age before entering the School of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, where he studied both Chinese and Western painting. He later taught there from 1941 to 1947. His training developed at the crossroads of two major traditions: the Chinese pictorial heritage, particularly that of the Song Dynasty, and European academic teaching. This dual culture shaped a singular artistic language combining calligraphy, drawing from life, oil painting, and the mastery of linear and atmospheric perspective.
At the age of twenty-seven, he left China for France and settled in Paris, in the Montparnasse district. There, he attended the classes of Émile Othon Friesz and discovered the post-war Parisian art scene.
From the 1950s onwards, he developed a highly personal pictorial universe that gradually evolved towards a lyrical and atmospheric abstraction, in which light, breath, and space became the true subjects of painting. Throughout his career, he explored a variety of techniques, alternating between oil painting, printmaking, calligraphy, and later, Chinese ink painting.
Naturalised as a French citizen in 1964 with the support of André Malraux, he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2002.
He passed away on 9 April 2013 in Nyon and is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.
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