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Pop Art Ting, Walasse Two Ladies with Fans. 1988. Colour lit…
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Pop Art Ting, Walasse Two Ladies with Fans. 1988. Colour lit…
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Estimate €600 - €800
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Description
Pop Art
Ting, Walasse
Two Ladies with Fans. 1988. Colour lithograph on Somerset Velin (with watermark) 44.8 x 55.5 cm (53.1 x 73.4 cm). Bearing the embossed stamp of Atelier Dumas, New York. Signed and numbered. – On the reverse, a copyright stamp and pencil numbering. A magnificent print, exceptionally rich in colour and high in contrast, with a wide margin.
One of 200 copies. - The work depicts two women standing close together, their bodies rendered in flat, luminous colours, whilst fans and splashes of paint create a dense, almost tropical atmosphere, in which a bright green grasshopper, as a pointed detail, ironically accentuates the sensuality of the scene. Here, Ting combines his characteristic repertoire – female figures, animals, flowers and decorative motifs – into a hedonistic riot of colour that draws equally on Matisse, Pop Art and the calligraphic gestures of Chinese ink painting. From an art-historical perspective, the work belongs to the phase from the mid-1970s onwards, during which Ting developed his previously informal-abstract visual language into a popular figurative style, transforming female bodies – often depicted with fans, birds or insects – into bearers of a sensuous, ‘paradisiacal’ iconography. At the same time, the flat, poster-like colour scheme and the silkscreen-like brilliance of the lithograph manifest Ting’s role as a mediator between the European CoBrA style, American Pop aesthetics and a transcultural self-image shaped by exile and migration. Within his body of work, this print can therefore be read as exemplary of Ting’s late style, in which the eroticised depiction of the feminine, the anarchic joy in colour and the interpenetration of Eastern and Western pictorial traditions merge into a distinct, cosmos of sensuality that is now being re-evaluated in art history.
Two Ladies with Fans. 1988. Colour lithograph on Somerset Velin (with watermark). With the blind stamp of Atelier Dumas, New York. Signed and numbered. – On the reverse: copyright stamp and pencil numbering. A splendid impression, remarkably intense in colour and rich in contrast, with wide margins. One of 200 prints. - The work depicts two women nestled closely together, their bodies rendered in flat, luminous colours, whilst fans and splashes of paint create a dense, almost tropical pictorial atmosphere in which a bright green grasshopper, as a pointed detail, ironically accentuates the sensuality of the scene. Here, Ting fuses his characteristic repertoire – female figures, animals, flowers and decorative motifs – into a hedonistic outburst of colour that evokes Matisse, Pop Art and the calligraphic gesture of Chinese ink painting in equal measure. From an art-historical perspective, the print belongs to the phase beginning in the mid-1970s, when Ting developed his previously Informel-abstract visual language into a popular figurative style and transformed female bodies—often accompanied by fans, birds or insects—into bearers of a lustful, “paradisiacal” iconography. At the same time, the flat, poster-like chromaticity and the screenprint-like brilliance of the lithograph embody Ting’s role as a mediator between the European CoBrA movement, American Pop aesthetics, and a transcultural self-conception shaped by exile and migration. Within his body of work, this print can thus be seen as exemplary of Ting’s late style, in which the eroticised depiction of the feminine, the anarchic delight in colour, and the interpenetration of Eastern and Western pictorial traditions merge into an autonomous cosmos of sensuality that is currently being re-evaluated in art-historical discourse.
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