The Great Zao Wou-ki in Small Format

Published on 09 February 2022, by Philippe Dufour

Auction on 19 February 2022 - 14:30 (CET) - Salle Saint-Jean, 12, rue Jean-Nicot - 45140 Saint-Jean-de-La-Ruelle

This recently rediscovered small format contains Zao Wou-ki’s entire telluric world, from the importance of emptiness inherited from the Chinese tradition to the play of light shaped by color.

Zao Wou-ki (1920–2013), Composition, 2/2/74, 1974, oil on canvas signed lower right,... The Great Zao Wou-ki in Small Format

Zao Wou-ki (1920–2013), Composition, 2/2/74, 1974, oil on canvas signed lower right, countersigned and dated on back, 27 x 22 cm/10.63 x 10.63 in.
Estimate: €80,000/120,000

The story of how this work by the master of abstraction from the Giraud Collection was discovered is one of those wonderful tales that every auctioneer dreams of. Matthieu Semont found Composition, 2/2/74 slumbering in a Parisian couple’s former country house in the Orléans Forest that had been closed…

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THE WORLD'S BEAUTIFUL - February 2022

Saturday 19 February 2022 - 14:30 (CET) - Live

Salle Saint-Jean, 12, rue Jean-Nicot - 45140 Saint-Jean-de-La-Ruelle

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