ZAO WOU KI (Beijing, 1921 - Nyon, Switzerland,... Lot 5

ZAO WOU KI (Beijing, 1921 - Nyon, Switzerland, 2013). Untitled. Lithograph on Vélin d'Arches paper 270 grams, copy 114/250. Signed and numbered in pencil. Size: 90 x 63 cm. Zao Wou Ki was born into a Franco-Chinese family and grew up in a very cultured environment, interested in the arts and sciences. He studied calligraphy as a child, an aspect that would influence his mature work, and later trained in painting at the Hangzhou Fine Arts College between 1935 and 1941. A few years later, in 1948, he settled in Paris, in the Montparnasse district, where he followed the artistic courses of Émile Othon Friesz and came into contact with the contemporary artistic avant-garde. His painting is eminently abstract and colorist, strongly influenced by the work of Paul Klee. He usually worked with large masses of intense, contrasting color. They are often explosions of color, germinal "big bangs", the origin of a world in creation.