Top-50 most expensive artworks by Chinese abstract artist Zao Wou Ki (1921-2013) according to the results of open auctions before April 2015.
According to the Agency Skate's Art Market Reserch, Zao Wou Ki occupies the 27 line in the Rating of world's most expensive artists. Auction value of his 111 artworks included in Top-10000 world's most expensive artworks of visual art comprises $381.378 million. The average auction price of Zao Wou Ki's paintings is $ 3.436 million.
The artist’s career was rejuvenated following a major retrospective in Paris in 2003. Since then, his blend of Chinese techniques with Western modernist aesthetics has caught the eye of wealthy Asian collectors – especially from Taiwan and mainland China – who have paid significant sums for his paintings.
A new wave of collector's interest to artworks of Zao Wou-Ki came literally through one month after his death, April 9, 2013. The old rule of art dealers "A good artist - dead artist" is confirmed: 47 paintings of the aforementioned 111 sold in the period from May 2013 to April 2015.
Zao Wou-Ki
"Abstraction", 1958
$ 14,718 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"3.4.60-1.2.69", 1960
$ 9,115 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Debut d′Octobre (Beginning of October)", 1955
$ 7,665 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"25.05.1962", 1962
$ 5,934 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"04.04.85", 1985
$ 5,689 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"30.7.64", 1964
$ 4,926 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"11.03.65", 1965
$ 4,638 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"22.07.64", 1964
$ 4,538 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"La Mer perdue", 1952
$ 4,328 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"14.03.60", 1960
$ 3,916 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Et la terre était sans forme", 1956
$ 3,787 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"19.07.63", 1963
$ 3,532 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"15.6.59-26.12.70", 1959
$ 3,338 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"25.09.60", 1960
$ 3,335 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Composition no.8", 1958
$ 3,182 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"La mare aux Diables", 1956
$ 3,101 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Pins Landais", 1956
$ 2,967 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"15.01.82 (triptych)", 1982
$ 10,992 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"10.01.68", 1968
$ 8,856 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Abstract landscape 27.08.91", 1991
$ 7,359 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Hommage à Ту-Fou", 1956
$ 5,861 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"2.11.59", 1959
$ 5,288 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"17.04.64", 1964
$ 4,925 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Nous Deux (We Two)", 1983
$ 4,586 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"14.12.62", 1962
$ 4,490 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Water Music", 1956
$ 4,260 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"19.11.59", 1959
$ 3,915 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"22.8.91", 1991
$ 3,771 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Mars", 1952
$ 3,529 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"5.11.64", 1964
$ 3,337 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"23.05.61", 1961
$ 3,264 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"18.10.98", 1998
$ 3,114 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Untitled", 1958
$ 3,074 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Ciel, terre et poussiere", 1957
$ 2,954 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"16.5.66", 1966
$ 10,270 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Plantes tortillées", 1954
$ 8,115 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Vent du Nord (North Wind)", 1956
$ 6,372 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Sous Bois Dans La Nuit", 1955
$ 5,760 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"14.11.63", 1963
$ 4,999 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"10.03.83" (diptych), 1983
$ 4,776 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Cerf Volant et oiseaux", 1955
$ 4,538 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"15.05.60", 1960
$ 4,420 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"10.11.58-30.12.70", 1958
$ 4,205 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"Vaque", 1955
$ 3,824 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"24.01.63", 1963
$ 3,607 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"01.12.64", 1964
$ 3,476 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"09.06.67", 1967
$ 3,336 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"25.06.86", 1986
$ 3,258 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"25.05.70", 1970
$ 3,114 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"23.03.68", 1968
$ 3,051 million
Zao Wou-Ki
"10.03.82", 1982
$ 2,903 million