Zao Wou-Ki (French/Chinese, 1920–2013), Untitled (1963)

Lithograph in colors, 1963, pencil signed, inscribed, and marked as artist's proof aside from the edition of 125, unframed.

Image size 12 1/2 x 24 1/4 in.; Sheet size 15 3/4 x 25 7/8 in.

Private Collection, Atlanta, Georgia

Born in Beijing and later making Paris his permanent residence, world-renowned abstract landscape artist Zao Wou-Ki brilliantly fuses Eastern and Western artistic principles. While becoming friends with Joan Miró and Alberto Giacometti when moving to France and situating himself as a leading artist of the École de Paris, he also threaded Chinese influence into his art making with traditional Chinese brushwork and calligraphy.

Zao’s work has been the subject of many major international exhibitions, and his retrospective titled Zao Wou-Ki: L’espace et silence was on view at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris in 2018-19. His work titled 29.01.63 set the world auction record for an oil painting by an Asian artist with the hammer price of $22,794,680 at Christie’s in November 2017.

Image in good condition; margins with toning, mat burn, and some edge curling; full sheet trimmed.