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Walasse Ting 丁雄泉, Two Geishas with Red Horse, 1981

Name: Walasse Ting 丁雄泉, Two Geishas with Red Horse, 1981
Brand: Walasse Ting
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Walasse Ting

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Walasse Ting

Two Geishas with Red Horse, 1981

Lithograph. Hand Signed. Numbered. Dated. Unframed.

17 5/8 × 23 1/4 in

44.8 × 59.1 cm

Edition 28/200

Hand signed, dated and numbered on upper right recto

Elegant lithograph of a horse with two geishas from beloved international artist Walasse Ting, who lived and worked in China, Europe and the U.S. - and is perhaps best known for his friendship and collaboration with Sam Francis on the landmark 1960s Pop Art portfolio "One Cent Life." Walasse Ting (Chinese: 丁雄泉, October 13, 1929 – May 17, 2010) 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. He 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, he 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. He is the author of 13 books, including "All in my Head" (Walasse Ting & Roland Topor, 1974) and "One Cent Life" (Eberhard W. Kornfeld, 1964) a portfolio of 62 original lithographs by 28 artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Kiki Kogelnik, Tom Wesselmann, James Rosenquist, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Claes Oldenburg, Joan Mitchell Robert Rauschenberg and Sam Francis. He won the Guggenheim Fellowship Award (for Drawing) in 1970. His works are 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. - Courtesy Wiki