Happy Grandmother 1986 40x34 Huge

Year1986

Hand SignedLower Right and on Verso 

Condition Excellent 

Framed without GlassWood Frame Painted in Gold Leaf With Black Trim 

Purchased fromGallery 1986 

Provenance / HistoryOcean Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

Story / Additional InfoThis painting is of a lady sitting on a sanpan untangling a fishnet. She befriended Wai Ming when he lived in Hong Kong. While painting on the hills around Hong Kong she would bring him food. The details are exquisite. The details he captured in her aging skin, the arthritis in her fingers, the prominence of her veins, the texture of her hair, the weight of her earrings pulling on her ears....... 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

Additional InformationHuge Price Drop - Motivated 

LID129468

Wai Ming - China

Art Brokerage: Park West artist: Wai Ming Chinese Artist aka King Kwok: b. 1938. Wai Ming, was born in Canton, South China on November 11, 1938. The son of a school master with nine children, extremely poor as a child, he was raised in Hong Kong enduring many hardships amidst a chaotic environment of war and refugee settlements. Despite the focus on practical matters from such a state of affairs, Wai Ming's love for art flourished and he developed his drawing techniques without any art education, just painting what he saw. In the 1960s, Ming found representation in Hong Kong and also took the unusual step of opening his own gallery to display his work in. His primary interest being to capture images of life in fishing villages, or 'fish-folk', who have retained traditional Chinese culture, his work was at home with the sensibilities of many art buyers in Hong Kong, and so was able to find some initial success. Crossing the ocean in his mid-30s, Wai Ming arrived in the United States from Hong Kong in 1974. His original oil paintings and fine art reproductions are admired and collected throughout the world. Listings wanted.