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Untitled

Untitled, 1957

  • Zao Wou-Ki, French, born in China, 1921 - 2013

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 31 × 87 inches (78.7 × 221 cm)

Gift of Dr. Wu-Wai Chao

F75.18

On View

  • Chinese Art N1DD

Department

Contemporary Art after 1950

Details

Signed, lower right: [Chinese characters] 57

Dr. Wu-Wai Chao

1975-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Chao, Phebe. “Remembering Wou-Ki.” In No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki, ed. Melissa Walt, Ankeney Weitz, and Michelle Yun. Exh. cat., Asia Society Museum. New York, 2016, pp. 54-59, p. 55 (fig. 39), p. 57 (fig.41).

Zao Wou-Ki, Untitled, 1957, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. Wu-Wai Chao, F75.18.

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