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Raised in a family of scholars in Nantong, Zao Wou-Ki moved to Paris in 1948 and turned to oil painting under the influence of Paul Klee. Having recently embraced abstraction, he created Vent Wind, inspired not by a specific landscape but by the movement of natural forces. At once real and intangible, a breath of wind gently disturbs the calm surface of the water. Emerging from the depths of the grey-brown, mysterious signs rise to the top of the canvas, rendered in black and white and reminiscent of traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting.