Zao Wou-Ki (France/China, 1920-2013), signed and dated 1957 in margin. Framed, not examined out of frame. Frame size: 27" high, 32 3/8" wide. Slight spotting in the margins, losses to frame, scratches to glass. Born in Beijing in 1920, studying under Lin Fengmian at the National Academy of Arts in Hangzhou. A master of postwar art and the highest-selling Chinese painter of his generation, Zao Wou-Ki applied Modernist art-making techniques to traditional Chinese literati painting. Provenance: Collection of the late Thomas N. Armstrong III, Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1974-1990. Purchased in 1957 in Hawaii, at the time when the artist was working in Hawaii.

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