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Zao Wou-Ki

Les Attiseurs (The Guardian of the Flame)

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B.1920 | D.2013

signed and dated '[in Chinese] ZAO 55' lower right; signed, titled and dated 'ZAO WOU-KI Les Attiseurs 1955' in the reverse
oil on canvas
46 x 55 cm (18 1/8 x 21 5/8 in.)
Painted in 1955

Provenance

Myriam Prévot, Paris
Private Collection, Brussels
Sotheby’s, Paris, 11 December 2008, lot 172
Private Collection, France
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Essen, Museum Folkwang, Zao Wou-Ki, 17 January - 21 February 1965 (illustrated, no. 8, fig. 3)

Literature

Claude Roy, Zao Wou-Ki, Editions George Fall and Le Musee de Poche, Paris, 1957 (illustrated, p. 23)
Claude Roy, Zao Wou-Ki, Grove Press, Inc., New York & Evergreen Books, Ltd., London, 1959 (illustrated, p. 21)
Claude Roy, Zao Wou-Ki, Jacques Goldschmidt and Le Musee de Poche, Paris, 1970 (illustrated, p. 29)
'Zao Wou-Ki', Lion Art, no. 13, Taipei, March 1972, (illustrated, p.15)
Dominique de Villepin, Zao Wou-Ki, Flammarion, Paris, 2009 (illustrated, p. 110)
Dominique de Villepin, Zao Wou-Ki, Abbeville Press, New York, 2018 (illustrated, p. 110)
Françoise Marquet-Zao and Yann Hedgen, ed., Catalogue Raisonné des peintures - ZAO WOU-KI Volume I 1935-1958, Flammarion, Paris, 2019 (illustrated, no. P-0453, pp. 211 & 315)

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