$11,850
Walasse Ting (Chinese/American, b. 1929) Portrait of a Reclining Woman with Parrot Sealed "Cai Hua Da Dao" [thief who steals flowers] in Chinese within the composition. Acrylic and ink on rice paper, sheet size 38 x 70 in. (96.5 x 177.8 cm), framed. Condition: Tape hinged to linen-covered mat, subtle rippling, not examined out of frame. N.B. Ting, whose first name is the Westernized version of his Chinese given name 'Hua La Si', adopted the moniker 'thief who steals flowers' to express his love of women and depicting the female form. (1) The present work relates to Ting's Jolies Dames series of spring 1987 when he spent two months in Amsterdam photographing and sketching sixty-six female models as the basis for full-scale studio compositions (replete with cats, parrots, grasshoppers, and melons) created in New York later that year. (1) Walasse Ting: Jolies Dames. Paris: Yves Riviere Editeur, 1988. Tape hinged along top edge to linen mat, subtle rippling throughout, not examined out of frame.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-01-29
