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Zao Wou-Ki

1921 - 2013

“Although the influence of Paris is undeniable in all my training as an artist, I also wish to say that I have gradually rediscovered China... Paradoxically, perhaps, it is to Paris I owe this return to my deepest origins.”

— Zao Wou-Ki (in response to Maurice Colinon in Panorama chrétien, 1961.)

Portrait of artist Zao Wou-ki in 1974

Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos

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17.02.71–12.05.76 1971–76

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11.11.96 1996

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14.11.61 1961

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21.11.03 2003

Image of Zao Wou-Ki's artwork 25-03-85

25-03-85 1985

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27-10-1981 1981