Wou-Ki Zao was active/lived in New York / China, France. Wou Ki Zao is known for non objective and abstract landscape painting.
Medium: Watercolor On Paper
Age: Dated 1969
Painting Size: 16" x 20"
Frame Size: 25" x 29"
Signature: Lower left
Condition: Great Condition

Born: 1921 - Beijing, China
Nationality / Affiliation: China - France

Zao Wou-ki, found his distinctive voice and vocabulary in his mid-thirties, having by that time lived in Paris for a decade. By the end of 1957, he had committed to abstraction on terms that from the beginning set him apart from the other artists of his circle—Mitchell, Riopelle, Vieira da Silva, Soulages—as much as from his great supporter Henri Michaux.

His cypher-like signature, to which he has remained faithful for over fifty years, gives his first name in Chinese characters and his last in a Western orthography. It is emblematic of a stranded cultural identity, recognized from the first by sympathetic critics as the key to his artistic direction. The recognition, however, took the form of a view of Zao's painting as an exemplary reconciliation of Chinese and European aesthetics, in which the language of modern Western abstraction is enriched by a Chinese sensibility rooted in the past.

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Great overall condition.