The sale's top lot, 14.12.59 by
Zao Wou-Ki, more than doubled its estimate to fetch $22.6m.
"At $65 million,
Zao Wou-Ki joins the ranks of his post-war American contemporaries like de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman," Pascal de Sarthe, a Hong Kong-based dealer who has been selling Zao's works for 35 years, said after the sale.
They made up 4 of the top 10 highest selling artists - Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Fu Baoshi,
Zao Wou-Ki - with Qi coming in fifth overall behind Leonardo, Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.
- 2017 saw new auction records for many high-profile figures in Art History including Leonardo da Vinci, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Qi Baishi,
Zao Wou-Ki, Marc Chagall, Fernand Leger and Constantin Brancusi
Regard 'Contemporary Hieroglyphics' and find more proof that calligraphy has caught the whiff of modernity as ushered by the late, great
Zao Wou-ki when, after fleeing Beijing, he finally based himself in Paris till the end of his days.
Works available by David Armstrong, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Claudio Bravo, Richard Estes, Lucian Freud, Pablo Genoves, Red Grooms, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mangold, Henri Matisse, McDermott & McGough, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Jean Pagliuso, Pablo Picasso, Paula Rego, Larry Rivers, Ed Ruscha, Richard Segalman, Hans Silvester, Kiki Smith, Wayne Thiebaud, Diane Tuft, Manolo Valdes, Andy Warhol,
Zao Wou-Ki, and others
He may indeed be the greatest living Chinese artist, rivaled only by
Zao Wou-ki (b.
n Masterpieces will include three impressionist painters, Monet, Renoir and Sisley, and artists from the 20th century such as Dufy, Picasso, Chagall, Dali, Miro, Dubuffet and some living masters such as
Zao Wou-Ki, Botero, Georges Mathieu.
In addition to showcasing contemporary art from the United States and international art centers, ICA will host the works of contemporary masters such as Josef Albers, Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Roberto Matta, Judy Pfaff, Pierre Alechinsky and
Zao Wou-Ki. Artists with a Washington identity, such as Willem de Looper and Gene Davis, will also be on view.
Zao Wou-ki did a frontispiece for Genese when it was published in 1981 by Thierry Bouchard in Losne.
1) would set a new world auction record for the Franco-Chinese artist
Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013).