André MALRAUX and ZAO Wou-Ki - The Temptation of the West, 1962 - Book and lithographs - Signed
The Temptation of the West. [Besançon], Les Bibliophiles comtois (Paris, Imprimerie nationale), 1962. In-folio, 185 [including the first 4 white]-(7 including the last 3 white) pp., gray morocco, smooth spine, covers each adorned with 'a large polychrome and gilt mosaic composition, blue suede linings, purple suede endpapers, gilt edges, preserved covers and backs, folder with backs and flaps of gray morocco with lined case, both covered with a gray cork checkerboard- brown, faded spine (Thérèse Moncey - Ch. Collet doreur).
10 full-page LITHOGRAPHS BY ZAO WOU KI included in the pagination. VERY NICE COPY, ENRICHED WITH 2 SUITES, ONE ON JAPAN AND THE OTHER ON ARCHES, EACH COMPRISING 10 PLATES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST and a title printed on Arches.
These two sequels were printed in only 20 copies. - A MENU ILLUSTRATED WITH A LITHOGRAPHY BY ZAO WOU KI, for the meal given on the occasion of the publication of this edition (4 pp.). - A letter signed by André Malraux to Marcel Galland: "This book, by its conception, its typography and its execution, seems to me ONE OF THE BRILLIANT ACHIEVEMENTS OF CONTEMPORARY PUBLISHING".
Dimensions :
- Height : 37.5 cm
- Width : 18 cm
Zao Wou-Ki :
is a painter born in Pékin and naturalized French in 1953. He is one of the most renowned figure of the lyric abstraction representant of Lyrical Abstraction. Between 1935-1941 he studies in Hangzhou Fine-arts School, at the end of these studies he relized his first exhibition in Chang-King. He settled in Paris in 1948 and frequented Othon Friesz's workshop at The Grande-Chaumière academy, and The Fine-Art School. He met Sam Francis, Riopelle, Soulages, Hartung, Giacometti, Vieira da Silva. In 1950 the poet Henri Michaux wrote a text about Zao Wou-Ki's first lithographs. Paul Klee's work seen in Bern in 1951 radically steers Zao Wou-Ki toward abstraction. In 1962 the painter created ten litographs for André Malraux "La tentation de l'Occident" (The Wester temptation). In 1980, he is appointed wall painting teacher at The "École Nationale Supérieure des arts Décoratifs" (National Superior School of decorative arts).
The artist won several prices : he is named laureate of the Praemium Imperiale Award of Painting of Japan in 1994, the following year he received The "Prix de Science pour l’Art" (created by LVMH). And the Taylor Foundation Price in 2001.
In 1998, the painter creates a wall panel in ceramic, realized in Sintra by Viuva Lameco Ceràmique for The "Atlantic" metro station in Lisboa.
Through his work, he achieved the synthesis between the technical means of his Far East heritage and the plastic and poetic ambition of the western Lyrical Abstraction.
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