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A half year after the death of Walasse Ting, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum presents the first ever retrospective on the painter

• By David Frazier / Contributing Reporter

After Walasse Ting (丁雄泉) fled Communist-pressed Hong Kong for Paris in 1950, he adopted his unique first name by first Anglicizing his Chinese name, then tacking on “-sse” in emulation of the famed painter Henri Matisse. Ting had little money and few connections, but within five years this son of a wealthy Jiangxi Province family had befriended a fellow artist in the abstractionist Pierre Alechinsky, who was to become a lifelong friend and would take some influence from the Chinese calligraphy lessons Ting gave him.

By 1958, Ting had sold enough paintings in the galleries of Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam to move on to the pulsating hub of the international art world of that day, New York City. There he went on to establish a studio, start a family, work hand-in-hand with legends of the era like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, and spend the bulk of his life and formidable career as an abstract painter, pop poet, brilliant colorist, erotic adventurer and expatriate Chinese artist, though no single label has ever managed to stick to a man whose identity as an artist was

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