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Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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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(Biography provided by Graves International Art)

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Artist: Walasse Ting
Two Women With Fans
By Walasse Ting
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Chinese ink and acrylic on rice paper, stretched on canvas. Artist's stamp upper left. 71 x 38.25 in. 72.25...
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1980s Post-War Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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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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20th Century Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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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 ...
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1980s Modern Walasse Ting Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Mixed Media, Offset, Permanent Marker

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