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Zao Wou-Ki
La Tentation de l’Occident (The Temptation of the West) by André Malraux
- Estimate
- HK$100,000 - 150,000€11,400 - 17,100$12,800 - 19,200
HK$125,000
Lot Details
a complete set of ten lithographs in colours on Arches paper, with full margins and the full sheets, folded (as issued) with text by André Malraux, all contained in the original linen-covered portfolio with blue printed title
book: 39.6 x 29.8 x 5.1 cm. (15 5/8 x 11 3/4 x 2 in.)
each lithograph: 37.5 x 18 cm. (14 3/4 x 7 1/8 in.)
each lithograph: 37.5 x 18 cm. (14 3/4 x 7 1/8 in.)
Executed in 1962, this work is numbered 46 from an edition of 125 in Arabic numerals (as printed on the title page). There was also an edition of 45 in Roman numerals and two signed editions of 20 on Arches and Japan paper, published by Les Bibliophiles Comtois, Paris.
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Catalogue Essay
Rendered in varying shades of colours, the present lot is a folio containing 10 lithographs executed by one of the greatest modern Chinese painters, Zao Wou-Ki. Written by André Malraux, La Tentation de l’Occident (The Temptation of the West), was published in 1926 following the trip of the French Minister of Culture to the Far East, composing of an exchange of letters between a Chinese travelling in Europe and a Westerner visiting China. Fittingly, as a Chinese living in Paris, Zao was elected to illustrate the book. In 1964, Zao was granted French citizenship on the request of Andre Malraux himself, and was later honoured by France for his contribution to the arts.
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Literature