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Walasse Ting Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

American, Chinese, 1929-2010

Walasse Ting was a Chinese-American visual artist and poet. His colorful paintings have attracted critical admiration and a popular following. Common subjects include nude women and cats, birds and other animals.

Ting was born in Shanghai in 1929. He left China in 1946 and lived for a while in Hong Kong, then settled in Paris in 1952. There, he associated with artists such as Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky, members of the avant-garde group, CoBrA.

In 1957, Ting moved to the United States, and settled in New York, where his work was influenced by Pop art and Abstract Expressionism. He began primarily as an abstract artist, but the bulk of his work since the mid-1970s has been described as popular "figuratism," with broad areas of color painted with a Chinese brush and acrylic paint. He lived in Amsterdam in the 1990s, but regularly moved between there and New York.

Ting is the author of 13 books, including All in My Head (Walasse Ting & Roland Topor, 1974) and One Cent Life (E.W Kornfeld, 1964), a portfolio of 62 original lithographs by 28 artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, James Rosenquist, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Kiki Kogelnik, Joan Mitchell and Sam Francis.

Ting won the Guggenheim Fellowship Award for drawing in 1970. His works can be found in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Hong Kong Museum of Art, among others. He was sometimes referred to by his Chinese name "丁雄泉" or its various romanizations: Ding Xiongquan or Ting Hsiung-ch'uan.

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Artist: Walasse Ting
Two Women With Fans
By Walasse Ting
Located in Austin, TX
Chinese ink and acrylic on rice paper, stretched on canvas. Artist's stamp upper left. 71 x 38.25 in. 72.25 x 40.5 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple, float-mounted Gatorf...
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1980s Post-War Walasse Ting Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Rice Paper

Original unique drawing of three parrots in monograph by renowned Chinese artist
By Walasse Ting
Located in New York, NY
Walasse Ting 丁雄泉 Original three parrots drawing, 1984 Original parrots drawing done in ink with inscription held inside elegant hardback monograph with du...
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1980s Modern Walasse Ting Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

CAT (original drawing)
By Walasse Ting
Located in New York, NY
Walasse Ting 丁雄泉 CAT (original drawing), 1985 Original Ink and Marker on offset lithograph held in hardback monograph Hand signed and inscribed by the artist This is an absolutely gorgeous drawing of a cat by the pioneering Chinese-American-European artist Walasse Ting, who famously collaborated with Sam Francis and many other Ab Ex, Pop and COBRA artists. (He was the brainchild behind the legendary One Cent Life portfolio). Ting was also, famously, a cat lover, and is renowned for his expressive, colorful and gorgeous drawings of cats...
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1980s Abstract Walasse Ting Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Offset

Seven Geishas, Painting by Walasse Ting
By Walasse Ting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Walasse Ting, Chinese/American (1929 - 2010) Title: Seven Geishas with Flowers Year: circa 1980 Medium: Chinese Ink and Acrylic on Rice Paper, Stamped upper middle Paper Size...
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1980s Expressionist Walasse Ting Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Acrylic, Rice Paper

Oriental Woman
By Walasse Ting
Located in Milford, NH
A fine vibrant watercolor of an Oriental woman by Chinese/American artist Walasse Ting (1929-2010). Born in China in 1929, Walasse Ting is a self-taught...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Walasse Ting Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Six Geishas
By Walasse Ting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Walasse Ting, Chinese/American (1929 - 2010) Title: Six Geishas Year: circa 1981 Medium: Watercolor on Paper, stamped u.l. Size: 17.75 x 23.5 in. (4...
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1980s Contemporary Walasse Ting Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Reclining Woman with Horseriders - Chinese American Art Watercolour Ink
By Walasse Ting
Located in London, GB
WALASSE TING (1929-2010) [Ding Xiongquan] Wuxi 1929 – 2010 New York (Chinese/American) Title: Reclining Woman with Horseriders Technique: Stamp Signed Watercolour on Handmade Pape...
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