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WALASSE TING (CHINA/USA, 1929-2010)
Think You
signed, titled and dated ‘Think you ting 86’
acrylic on canvas
40.6 x 50.8 cm. (16 x 20 in.)
Painted in 1986

Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
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A largely self-taught painter, Walasse Ting developed a notable career that traversed major movements across Shanghai, Paris, and New York, as well as a range of Western and Chinese media. Though his time in New York brought him into close contact with Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism, his style was equally informed by an exuberant sense of color and line that set him well apart.

Think You fuses Pollockian drips and splatters with Ting’s characteristically spirited use of high-keyed color, hinting at the influence of Abstract Expressionist gesturalism on Ting’s painting method. Though Ting explored abstraction, his paintings retain a commitment to the figurative tradition. In Think You the subject’s face is clearly discernible, even as upon closer inspection the painting appears to dissolve into fields of pure color.

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