WALASSE TING (1929-2010) Original SIGNED Ltd Edition Litho with Hand Coloring 61 For Sale

Artist:WALASSE TING (Chinese-American, 1929-2010)Title: \"He Who Must Die . . .\" - 1961Medium: Original 14-Color Stone Lithograph with Hand-Applied Crayon overlay on Hand-made paper with deckled edgesSignature: Hand Signed by the Artist in Pencil, LR as shownEdition: Limited Edition of 90 impressions; this one numbered \"4/90\" in Pencil, LL as shownSize: 30 x 22 1/2 inches; printed to edges on two sidesPrinter: The ArtistPublisher:Kornfeld, Ltd.Provenance: Hatay Stratton Fine Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
About the Artist: Walasse Ting was an important and influential Chinese-American visual artist and poet. His colorful paintings and prints have attracted critical admiration and a popular following throughout the world. Common subjects include women and cats, birds and other animals. He was born on 13 October 1929 in Shanghai, 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. Ting started his career as an artist in Paris in the 1950s, where he became friends with artists such as Sam Francis and Pierre Alechinsky. His early works were influenced by the CoBrA group, a European art movement known for its use of expressive, childlike imagery. In the 1960s, Ting moved to New York City and became associated with the Pop Art movement. Ting was also known for his collaborations with poets, including Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, and his own poetry, which often featured themes of love and desire. He is the author of 13 books, \"One Cent Life\" (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. 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.