Ming Wai

Ma... I Want to Swim!, Photorealist Oil Painting by Wai Ming

1985

Artist: Di Li Feng, Chinese (1958 - ) Title: Portrait of a Girl by the River Year: circa 2000 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 51 x 38 in. (129.54 x 96.52 cm) Frame Size: 61....

Artist: Di Li Feng, Chinese (1958 - ) Title: Girl with Fan by the River Year: circa 2000 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 40 x 31 in. (101.6 x 78.74 cm) Frame Size: 51 x 42 i...

This artwork, "Children in a boat" 1976 in a color off set lithograph by renown Chinese/American artist Wai Ming A.K.A Lo Hing Kwok, b.1938. It is hand signed and inscribed A.P (Artist Proof) in pencil by the artist. The image size is 21.5 x 28.75 inches, sheet size is 32.5 x 39.5 inches. Custom framed in wood dark brown rustic frame and beige matting. It is in excellent condition About the artist: Wai Ming, was born in Canton, South China on November 11, 1938, the son of a school master with nine children. Extremely poor as a child, he was raised in Hong Kong enduring many hardships amidst a chaotic environment of war and refugee settlements. Wai Ming's love for art flourished and he developed his drawing techniques without any art education, just painting what he saw. In the 1960s, Ming found representation in Hong Kong and also took the unusual step of opening his own gallery to display his work in. His primary interest being to capture images of life in fishing villages, or 'fish-folk', who have retained traditional Chinese culture, his work was at home with the sensibilities of many art buyers in Hong Kong. Crossing the ocean in his mid-30s, Wai Ming arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong in 1974. There, he experienced initial resistance from galleries and the official art world for a variety of reasons, but was ultimately embraced by dealer Jack Swanson...

Oil on canvas