● Authors: Walasse, Ting - Sam Francis - E.W. Kornfeld

● Publisher: E.W. Kornfeld, Bern 1964

● Folio (410x310mm) - 170pp - 62 Original color lithographs double and single page. Portfolio consisting of 61 Poems by Walasse Ting (1929-2010) Chinese-American visual artist and poet. Born in Shanghai, he left China in 1946 and lived in the British colony of Hong Kong for six years before settling in Paris where he anglicized his Chinese name, tacking on sse in emulation of the famed painter Henri Matisse. In Paris, Ting became associated with the CoBrA group whose expressionist style of painting was inspired by the art of children. In 1957, bolstered by newfound success as a painter, he relocated to the United States and settled in New York City. Artists in the portfolio include: Pierre Alechinsky (Belgium, 1927 ), Karel Appel (Netherlands, 1921 2006) Machteld Appel (Belgium, 1921 1970) Enrico Baj (Italy, 1924 2003), Alan Davie (Scotland, 1920 England, 2014), Sam Francis (United States, 1923 1994), Robert Indiana (United States, 1928-2018), Alfred Julio Jensen (Guatemala, 1903 1981), Asger Jorn (Denmark, 1914 1973), Roy Lichtenstein (United States, 1923 1997), Joan Mitchell (United States, 1925 1992), Kiki Kogelnik (Austria, 1935 1997), Claes Oldenburg Sweden, 1929 ), Mel Ramos (United States, 1935 2018), Robert Rauschenberg (United States, (1925 2008), Allan Kaprow (United States, 1927 2006), Reinhoud D Haese (Belgium, 1928 2007), Jim Dine (United States, 1935 ), Jean-Paul Riopelle (Canada, 1923 2002), James Rosenquist (United States, 1933 2017), Antonio Saura (Spain, 1930 1998), Kimber Smith (United States, 1922 1981), K.R.H. Sonderborg (Denmark, 1923 2008), Walasse Ting (China, 1929 2010), Bram Van Velde (Netherlands 1895 1981), Öyvind Fahlström (1928 1976), Andy Warhol (United States, 1928 1987), and Tom Wesselmann (United States, 1931 2004). First edition, one of 2000 numbered copies, text in English language. Original Binding, dust-jacket and slipcase and addition to the original slipcase it has an original wooden box. In Fine condition.