Zao Wou-Ki (1920–2013) was the first artist of the Chinese
diaspora to achieve international recognition and was one of
France’s most important painters of the postwar era and beyond.
His large abstract canvases were in step with those of New York
School artists of the late 1940s and ‘50s and emerged from the
growing international impulse for non-objective painting. Zao
married western vanguard painting with Chinese traditions of
calligraphy and ink drawing and in doing so created a powerful
personal aesthetic that was uniquely his own. Drawn largely from
European private collections, the works of art in this catalogue
have almost never been exhibited before and were deeply personal to
Zao. The ceramics consist of two main groups – plates produced in
the late 1970s in association with Sèvres, bearing designs created
by Zao expressly for this purpose, and later designs from the 2000s
painted directly on vases, bowls and plates that were subsequently
editioned by Maison Bernardaud in Limoges. Zao worked in
watercolour throughout his long life and this catalogue features
examples from as early as 1960. But during his last years, the
artist rediscovered the medium with newfound enthusiasm and turned
increasingly to nature as the source of inspiration. In 2008, he
gave up oil painting entirely, and for the next two years,
watercolour was his primary form of expression.
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