Dedicated upper left: to Barbalata /  from Ting / 1973 - 2.22

Born in Shanghai, China, Walesse Ting is a self-taught painter, sculptor, graphic artist and poet who left China in 1949 and became a United States citizen in 1974.  He traveled and settled for a period in Paris beginning 1953, and became acquainted with artists Karel Appel, Asger Jorn and Pierre Alechinsky, members of the avant-garde group called COBRA.From 1963, he has lived in New York City and works in a variety of styles ranging from pure non-objectivity to figurative works showing both people and animals.Exhibitions of his work have been held in Hong Kong, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Milan, Vienna, Madrid and in the United States in New York, Detroit, and Pittsburgh.