Lithograph in colors on Arches France wove paper (watermark)
New York, USA, 1990
Walasse Ting (1929-2012) – Chinese-American painter, printmaker, sculptor and poet
Signed, dated and numbered lower left ‘Ting 90 222/250’
Verso annotated in pencil ‘WT 32’
Sheet size: 72 x 102 cm
Good condition
Provenance: Private collection Netherlands
Sensuous women, animals and landscapes are in the focus of Ting’s creativity; the auction record for a lithograph in colors by Ting is set above €7,000

Walasse Ting was a Chinese-American artist, whose Chinese name is ??? and he also used the translations of his name Ding Xiongquan or Ting Hsiung-ch'uan. This is a work from the creation year 1990, when the artist had already moved from Shanghai and Hong Kong to New York. From the seventies on the artist moved away from abstraction towards figural depictions. This lithograph in colors is a large-format work composed of large color fields. Depicted is a flower still life with fish in the background. It is the print number 222 from a limited edition of 250 prints.



The lithograph is signed, dated and numbered lower left ‘Ting 90 222/250’ and verso annotated in pencil ‘WT 32’. The sheet is in good condition with slight handling creases. Verso it shows slight foxing on the lower left in the margin. The sheet is 72 x 102 cm in size and the total dimensions, including the frame, are 99 x 127 cm.



Walasse Ting (1929-2012)

The Chinese painter, printmaker, sculptor and poet Walasse Ting lived in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris and New York. In Paris he came in touch with members of the CoBrA-group. Later in New York he was influenced by abstract Expressionism and pop art especially. In 1970, he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship Award for drawings. Works by Ting are in the possession of the collections of the Guggenheim Museum New York, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tate Modern in London, the Centre Pompidou Paris and the Hong Kong Museum of Art.

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