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May Zao  赵 May pinyin  Zhao May

1930

Chan May Kan was born on November 14 th, in Hong Kong.
   

1950

She worked as an actress of film and theatre.
   

1958

She met the painter Zao Wou-Ki  赵无极  who travelled in Hong Kong.

  They married, she took the name of May Zao and she came to live in Paris.
   

1963

She began drawing and painting, but she turned to the sculpture.

   

1972

She dead on March 10, from a long chronique mental illness.

  She is buried in the cemetery of Montparnasse, ( First division ).
  One of her sculptures is on her grave.
   
  In november, the Gallery France presented around twenty sculptures of May
 

with the works of Zao Wou-Ki  赵无极 .

   
 

Danièle Sicard

 


 
 

 May Zao 赵 May

 
 

 May Zao 赵 May

 
 
     
 

   Ces oeuvres sont ce qui nous reste d'elle avec le souvenir toujours présent de l'amie qu'elle fut.
   On peut saluer le talent, l'émouvante réussite, mais ce qui bouleverse chez cet être d'un pays lointain, c'est ce désir, cette volonté de nous être proche, de nous toucher, ces efforts pour vivre près de nous, parmi nous.
   Ces sculptures en sont le témoignage.

 
     
  Pierre Soulages  
 
 

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