Walasse TING
Chinese-American 1929 - 2010
Self-taught artist Walasse Ting was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, but raised in Shanghai, where he briefly attended the Shanghai Art Academy. He moved to Paris in 1952 where he became acquainted with members of the avant-garde group CoBrA, including artists such as Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky. Influenced by the modernist Western movements he encountered in Paris as well as traditional Chinese ink painting, Walasse Ting developed his unique, colorful style in Paris before moving to New York in 1958. The artist was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Drawing in 1970, along with numerous exhibitions and collections in museums world-wide. After suffering a stroke in 2002, Walasse Ting spent the remainder of his life in the Netherlands until his death in 2010.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Silkeborg Museum, Silkebor, Denmark
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA
Musee Cernuschi, Paris, France
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA, 1960
Galerie de France, Paris, France, 1968
Galerie Birch, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1970
Galerie Lefebre, New York, USA, 1973
National Gallery of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1982
Galerie Alcolea, Baecelona, Spain,1988
Galleria 2RC, Milan, Italy, 1990
Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, 1994
Galery Delaive, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1996
Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek, Netherlands, 2000
“Spring Drink, Flower Giggling” Shanghai Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2002
“Amazing Feelings” New Millenium Gallery, Beijing, China, 2010
“From Heroic Expression to Resplendent Color” Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2010
“The Floral Journey-The Artistic Memoir of Walasse Ting” Soka Art Center, Beijing, China, 2011
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Shining Cat
Acrylic on paper
44 x 61.5 cm
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Estimate
420,000 - 550,000 108,000 - 141,000 13,800 - 18,100 95,000 - 125,000
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Sold Price
480,000 121,827 15,569 108,108
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Canon Ball
1963
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 81 cm
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Estimate
550,000 - 750,000 141,000 - 193,000 18,100 - 24,700 125,000 - 170,000
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Sold Price
600,000 152,284 19,462 135,135
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I am Snow White/ P.S. She Is My Lover
1985
Acrylic on canvas
102 x 151.5 cm
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Estimate
7,500,000 - 8,500,000 1,928,000 - 2,185,000 246,600 - 279,500 1,705,000 - 1,932,000
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Seven Beauties
Color ink and acrylic on paper
35 x 48.5 cm
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Estimate
240,000 - 340,000 62,000 - 87,000 7,900 - 11,200 55,000 - 77,000
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Sold Price
384,000 97,462 12,455 86,486
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Abstraction
1962
Acrylic on canvas
92 x 129 cm
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Estimate
1,200,000 - 2,200,000 308,000 - 566,000 39,500 - 72,300 273,000 - 500,000
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Sold Price
1,200,000 304,569 38,923 270,270
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Reclining Nude
1974
Acrylic on paper laid down on cardboard
68.5 x 97.5 cm
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Estimate
1,600,000 - 2,600,000 411,000 - 668,000 52,600 - 85,500 364,000 - 591,000
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Sold Price
1,680,000 426,396 54,492 378,378
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Waiting for Your Love Letter
1979
Oil on canvas
76 x 102 cm
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Estimate
2,600,000 - 3,600,000 668,000 - 925,000 85,500 - 118,400 591,000 - 818,000
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Sold Price
2,640,000 670,051 85,631 594,595
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Pink Diamond Girl
1986
Acrylic on canvas
74.5 x 99.5 cm
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Estimate
3,800,000 - 4,800,000 1,024,000 - 1,294,000 130,900 - 165,300 824,000 - 1,041,000
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Sold Price
4,560,000 1,200,000 152,815
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Lady (quadriptych)
1986
Ink and color on paper
175 x 47.5 cm (X4)
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Estimate
3,200,000 - 4,200,000 863,000 - 1,132,000 110,200 - 144,700 694,000 - 911,000
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Sold Price
3,120,000 821,053 104,558
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Give Me a Hug
1977
Acrylic on canvas
66 x 86 cm
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Estimate
2,800,000 - 3,800,000 755,000 - 1,024,000 96,500 - 130,900 607,000 - 824,000
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