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Prepared in cooperation with the artists estate, Zao Wou-Ki: 19352010 features more than three hundred works and is the most complete monograph available on the artist. Born in Beijing, raised in Shanghai, Zao Wou-Ki (19202013) rose to prominence in his adopted France, and was one of the worlds most celebrated artists at the time of his death. Trained in both Western and Chinese painting, Zaos work bridged both. He became a master when he transcended both vocabularies. I wanted to paint differently,Zao Wou-Ki wrote about leaving China in 1948, and shortly after he landed in Paris, his work took on Western influences: a nude and a portrait of his wife, both 1949, recall Matisse in their subjects, loose style, and use of pattern. In 1951, Zao saw Paul Klee and began creating city scenes and landscapes with a similarly inky, slightly fantastical hand. The Western artists, he said, led him back to China, a statement evidenced in the ideograms and Shang dynasty motifs in his 1956
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