Walasse Ting - Black Cat - gesigneerd en 1981 - Sold

Walasse Ting (Shanghai, October 13, 1929[1] – New York, May 17, 2010) was a Chinese-American painter. He left China in 1946, lived briefly in Hong Kong and settled in Paris in 1952. There he met Karel Appel, Asger Jorn and Pierre Alechinsky. In 1957 he went to America and settled in New York, where his work was influenced by pop art and abstract expressionism.
From 1989 he lived alternately in New York and Amsterdam, where he had a studio together with Appel. In 2002 he fell into a coma after a cerebral haemorrhage, after which he was cared for in a nursing home in Amstelveen. Two weeks before his death, he was taken to New York by his children, where he died at the age of 80.[2]
Ting worked with acrylic paint on rice paper. He often painted half-naked women surrounded by birds, cats and other animals. Major museums all over the world own his work, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.