Lot 30
Woman with Flowers and Parrots
Walasse TING (Chinese-American, 1929 - 2010)
Ink and color on paper
177 x 96 cm
Estimate
TWD 2,200,000-2,800,000
USD 67,700-86,200
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Even if you walked through major cities in the world, you probably couldn't find another Chinese painter like Walasse Ting, posters and prints made from his sensual and joyful paintings can be seen anywhere. According source, more than 10 years ago his painting has sold over 1 million printed on cards, 3.5 million printed on posters. There are probably no other Chinese painters could ever transcend his worldwide charisma.
Walasse Ting is the artist who "only paints for the beauty" apart from his abstract works and those during the Paris period, almost all of his paintings are always full with scents of flowers, beauties, colors, and joys. His friends consider him as a attentive and sensitive person, It has been said that one time there was a huge rain, and Walasse Ting is too suffered to see the blooming peony ruined by the rain, he went to the garden and opened an umbrella to protect it, and had stood for hours. He loves flowers dearly, also has strong desires to women. He thinks that there are no straight lines on women's body, only beautiful lines. Even the most ordinary woman has her own beauty; therefore he keeps watching women, observes women from anywhere, and rushed into his studio to paint his feelings onto the canvas.
Walasse Ting said: "No women, no art, the emotions and feelings from art came from women body, and it never ends."The pursue of aesthetic forms eventually had to follow traditions, and many male artists share similar views. During his early Paris period, he was deeply influenced by Matisse's paintings, because there are always happiness and beautiful colors in his paintings. When he moved to New York, he became a member of the New York School and Pop Art, on the structures of a painting, he prefers decorations. "Women with Flowers and Parrots"has Ting's typical "Three Beauties"arrangements, he used high hue colors, and color blocks from Chinese traditional block prints to complete a block prints-like color painting. The funny thing is, he often choose the classical images of the three goddesses from the western culture to paint his favorite female portraits. The rectangle picture gives the feeling of eastern scroll paintings. Through Walasse Ting's brush, the woman's coyness, the parrot's beautiful feathers looked lively, emotional and romantic.
The 20th & 21st Century Chinese Art
Ravenel Spring Auction 2006
Sunday, June 4, 2006, 12:00am