Zao Wou-Ki
(1920–2013)

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Zao Wou-Ki was a Chinese-French artist known for his non-representational paintings that blended
Eastern and Western modes of art making. “Everybody is bound by a tradition. I am bound by two,”
the artist once reflected. Born on February 1, 1920 in Peking, China, he studied at the Hangzhou
Fine Arts School for six years were he was influenced by the work of traditional Chinese and
Japanese art as well as Western painters like Paul Klee and Franz Kline. In 1947, the artist moved
to Paris where he became the neighbor of Alberto Giacometti and friends with Sam Francis,
Jean-Paul Riopelle, and Pierre Soulages. During the following decades, Zao’s work became very
popular with Chinese collectors and by the 2000s his paintings were selling in the millions. The
artist died on April 9, 2013 in Nyon, Switzerland at the age of 93. In 2016, he was the subject
of his first retrospective held in the United States titled “No Limits Zao Wou-Ki” at the Asia Society
in New York. Today, the artist’s works are in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London,
The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.,
among others.

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Prodata Slika Žao Vu Kija
Sotbi: Slika Žao Vu Kija prodata za 65 miliona dolara na aukciji


Apstraktni triptih dug oko deset metara slikara Žao Vu Kija prodat je za 65 miliona dolara na aukciji
u Hongkongu, što je svetski rekord za delo tog kineskog umetnika, saopštila je kuća Sotbi.


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Slika nazvana “Jun-oktobar 1985” je svojevremeno naručio američki arhitekta kineskog porekla I.M Pei.

Umetnik i arhitekta su se upoznali u Parizu 1952. godine posle čega je usledilo dugo prijateljstvo.
Žao, rođen 1920. godine, umro je 2013. godine. Njegova, kao i dela azijskih umetnika poslednjih godina se
prodaju na aukcijama u Hongkongu i obično dostižu veće cene od početnih.

Žao Vou-Ki je bio međunarodni majstor abstrakcije. Ne samo da su njegovi radovi izlagani na bezbrojnim
važnim izložbama u poslednjih pola veka, već su ušli u preko 120 javnih zbirki širom sveta. Publikacije
pokazuju da su njegova dela našla važan dom u američkim institucijama, gde sada živi veliki broj njegovih
važnih slika.

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