Walasse Ting Busy Bodies lucky grasshoppers 1981 Limited Edition Lithograph
Walasse Ting Busy Bodies lucky grasshoppers 1981 Limited Edition Lithograph
Walasse Ting
Busy Bodies lucky grasshoppers - 1981
Print - Lithograph on Somerset paper 21'' x 28¾''
Edition: Signed in pencil and marked A.P. (artist proof )
Image size: 17 ½" x 26" inches
Walasse Ting (DING XIONGQUAN) (October 13, 1929 – May 17, 2010) Born in Wuxi, China in 1929, but raised in Shanghai, Walesse Ting is a self-taught painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet who began his life as an artist at a very young age, painting on sidewalks. He left China in 1949 and settled for a six year period in Paris beginning in 1952, where he lived as a poor struggling artist but became acquainted with artists Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky, members of the avant-garde group called COBRA.
His favourite subjects include deeply sensuous women, animals such as cats, birds and fishes and a broad range of flora and fauna.
He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Drawing.