Walasse Ting artwork • painting • for sale Parrots

Walasse Ting was born in Shanghai, China. In 1946 he left China and finally settled in Paris. There he met Karel Appel, Asger Jorn and Pierre Alechinsky. In 1957 he moved to New York, where his work was influenced by pop art and abstract expressionism. In the spring of 1987 he lived in Amsterdam for two months. He studies and photographs 66 young women there day in and day out. Back in New York, he paints them from memory on rice paper, a reminder of his stay in the Netherlands. Since 1989 he has lived alternately in New York and Amsterdam, where he has a studio together with Karel Appel. The artist died in New York in 2002.