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POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART Wednesday 8 March 2017 Detail lot 5 Detail lot 41 Detail lot 47 Detail lot 38 Detail lot 15 Detail lot 31 POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART Wednesday 8 March 2017, at 4pm 101 New Bond Street, London VIEWING BIDS ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES New Bond Street, London +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Ralph Taylor Monday to Friday 08.30am to 6pm Saturday 4 March 11am - 5pm +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax +44 (0) 20 7447 7403 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Sunday 5 March 11am - 5pm To bid via the internet [email protected] Monday 6 March 9am - 6pm please visit bonhams.com As a courtesy to intending Tuesday 7 March 9am - 6pm Gareth Williams bidders, Bonhams will provide a Wednesday 8 March 9am - 2pm + 44 (0) 20 7468 5879 written Indication of the physical Telephone bidding [email protected] condition of lots in this sale if a Please note that bids should be request is received up to 24 hours SALE NUMBER submitted no later than 4pm on the Giacomo Balsamo before the auction starts. 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SALE Central Middlesex Acton Ln Hospital Park Royal INFORMATION Acton Ln Cadogan Tate Coronation Road W e d s P a te a o r r n R k A v e R e s A o 40 a y h a Park l C Royal iWestern Ave A40 R o Station a 0 d 0 Acton 0 North 4 Cemetery A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V West Acton Horn Lane Station BIDS BUYERS COLLECTION & STORAGE AND HANDLING VAT +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 STORAGE AFTER SALE CHARGES ON SOLD LOTS Will be applied at the current +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax LOTS MARKED TP RETURNED TO CADOGAN TATE rate on all above charges To bid via the internet please visit www.bonhams.com All sold lots marked TP will be Storage The following symbol is removed to Cadogan Tate, 241 Storage will be free of charge used to denote that VAT Acton Lane, London, NW10 7NP PAYMENTS for the first 14 calendar days is due on the hammer price Buyers from 9.00am Thursday 9 March 2017 from & including the sale date and buyer’s premium +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Wednesday 8 March 2017 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax COLLECTION * VAT on imported items at Sold TP lots will be available for Charges will apply from 9am a preferential rate of 5% on Sellers collection from Cadogan Tate Tuesday 21 March 2017 hammer price and the Payment of sale proceeds from 12pm Friday 10 March then prevailing rate on buyer’s premium +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 every working day between 9am Pictures and small objects: and 4.30pm on production of +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax £2.85 per day + VAT IMPORTANT NOTICE photographic identification and A surcharge of 2% is applicable written authorisation for third-party VALUATIONS, Furniture, large pictures when using MasterCard & collections. 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POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART LOTS 1 - 52 PROPERTY SOLD TO BENEFIT MODERN ART OXFORD LOTS 53 - 71 Detail lot 24 REPRESENTATIVES Europe Catherine Yaiche Victoria Rey-de-Rudder Livie Gallone-Moeller Emma Dalla Libera Paris Geneva Geneva Rome Luca Curradi Christine de Schaetzen Andrea Bodmer Thomas Kamm Milan Brussels Zurich Munich Katharina Schmid Kieran O'Boyle Koen Samson Margitte Verwoerdt Cologne Dublin Amsterdam Amsterdam Australia Johann Leibbrandt Teresa Ybarra Filipa de Andrade Mark Fraser Madrid Barcelona Lisbon Melbourne POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART SPECIALISTS London Ralph Taylor Gareth Williams Giacomo Balsamo Jacqueline Nowikovsky Director, UK Board Departmental Director Departmental Director Specialist Head of Sale New York Amy Thompson Jeremy Goldsmith Megan Murphy Alana Ricca Junior Specialist Director Specialist, Head of Sale Junior Specialist Los Angeles Hong Kong Alexis Chompaisal Dane Jensen Ingrid Dudek Jennifer Tang Director Director Director, Contemporary Art Junior Specialist Australia Beijing Asia Representatives Yao Yao Bernadette Rankine Summer Fang Ryo Wakabayashi Specialist Singapore Taipei Tokyo 1 AR ZAO WOU-KI (1921-2013) Untitled 1956 signed and dated 56 watercolour on paper 25 by 31 cm. 9 13/16 by 12 3/16 in. £40,000 - 60,000 US$51,000 - 76,000 €47,000 - 70,000 This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of the artist currently being prepared by Françoise Marquet and Yann Hendgen, and is accompanied by a photo-certificate of authenticity. Provenance Private Collection, Germany Sale: Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Auktion 258, Teil II: Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts und Gegenwartskunst, 14 June 2013, Lot 853 Acquired directly from the above by the previous owner Thence by descent to the present owner Although he created many masterpieces using oil on canvas, it is surely Although it ostensibly bears little relation to the real world, in watercolour that Zao Wou-Ki could express himself most instinctively. this work surely contains echoes of a distant place, It was in this medium, after all, that he first trained, soaking up the recalling the rugged landscapes of Zao Wou-Ki’s homeland. traditions of Chinese calligraphy before embarking on the journey to In fact, this delightful painting on paper dates from a period when Zao Paris in 1948 which was to define his later artistic development. It Wou-Ki had only recently arrived at a style which can be described is often noted that Zao’s style represents a unique blend of Chinese as truly abstract. His journey towards this destination was certainly and European, mixing the traditional and the experimental to create a long one, and Zao himself suggested that reaching this goal was a dynamic new aesthetic. In Untitled from 1956 we witness this new not in fact his intention: “Mes amis, à partir de 1954, m’ont dit que je fusion when it was still fresh, and enjoy a rare chance to appreciate the devenais un peintre abstrait.