Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper size: 10 x 7.375 inches. Excellent condition. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Ediciones Polígrafa, Redfern Gallery, 1979. Published by Redfern Gallery, London; printed by Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, October 23, 1979. Excerpted from the album (translated from French), This book has been published for the exhibition of artists who have worked for Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona, at the Redfern Gallery, 20 Cork Street - London W. 1 from December 4th, 1979, to January 31st, 1980. This album was finished in Barcelona on 23rd October 1979 on the presses of La Polígrafa, S.A. The English edition for the Redfern Gallery has been limited to M examples. There is also a de luxe edition with a portfolio containing a selection of the lithographs with full margins, 3742 x 27 cm., specially made for this book, signed and limited to C examples. ZAO WOU-KI (Chinese: 赵无极) (1920-2013) was a Chinese-French painter. He was a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Zao Wou-Ki graduated from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he studied under Fang Ganmin and Wu Dayu. Zao's works, influenced by Paul Klee, are orientated to abstraction. He names them with the date in which he finishes them, and in them, masses of colours appear to materialise a creating world, like a Big Bang, where light structures the canvas. He worked formats in triptychs and diptychs. While his work was stylistically similar to the Abstract Expressionists whom he met while travelling in New York, he was influenced by Impressionism. Zao Wou-Ki stated that he had been influenced by the works of Matisse, Picasso and Cézanne. Zao Wou-ki's 29.01.64 (1964) was sold for HK$202.6m (US$26m) at Christie's in Hong Kong, setting a new auction record for the artist and the world record for an oil painting by any Asian artist in 2017. The record for the artist was previously held by 29.09.64, another large painting that was sold for HK$153m (US$19.6m) at Christie's Hong Kong in May 2017.