The Zao Wou-Ki Collection Bottle 1998 Vintage.

The Taittinger Collection Series was conceived in the late 1970s by Claude Taittinger. Long a patron of the arts with a passionate interest in the modern schools of painting and sculpture, he perceived a natural alliance between the artist and the art of the great winemaker.

Zao Wou-Ki was born in Beijing on February 13, 1921, into a family belonging to the very ancient Song Dynasty which ruled China during the Middle Ages. After attending the very prestigious Hangzhou Fine Arts Academy, he moved to Paris in 1948 and entered the Grande Chaumiere Academy, where he met, among others, Soulages, Vieira da Silva, Hartung and Giacometti.

 Zao Wou-Ki is one of the most moving of all abstract modern painters of the 20th century