This volume, the first to explore this major artist's experiments in watercolor and his interesting and beautiful forays into ceramic decoration, features a brief note by Françoise Marquet-Zao. Zao Wou-Ki (1920–2013) was the first artist of the Chinese diaspora to achieve international recognition and was one of France’s most important painters of the post-war era and beyond. His large abstract canvases were in step with those of New York School artists of the late 1940s and 50s and emerged from the growing international impulse for non-objective painting. Zao married western vanguard painting with Chinese traditions of calligraphy and ink-drawing and in doing so created a powerful personal aesthetic that was uniquely his own. Pub Date: 2023 Format: Hardback Pages: 128 Size: 10.00(h) x 9.00(w) inches Case Quantity: 12 ISBN: 9781913875282