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RAYMOND CHING - Tiger, Asleep
Estimate:
$15,000 - $20,000
Sold
$28,000
Live Auction
IMPORTANT & RARE ART
ARTIST
RAYMOND CHING (b. 1939)
Size
23 x 35 cm
Description
Oil on panel
Condition
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Signature
Signed & dated 1980
Provenance
Private Collection, Auckland
Literature
As with nearly all of my studies from life, no white paint has been used in the production of this sketch. To work as quickly as possible, I draw the animal in some detail directly onto a stark white gesso ground. Then, I put in layers of light ochres, yellows and blacks-barely enough to cover the pencil work, but with enough colour to establish the form and presence of a tiger on the painted surface. Working this way, the image slowly emerges like a photographic print in the developing tray. I hope that at least some of the energy of these huge cats is apparent in this painting. In such a study of rest and calm there should, however, be no doubt that if the animal were to awaken, whatever was around and about would need to rethink its position! - Raymond Ching
Exhibited
EXHIBITED
The Art of Raymond Ching, International Art Centre, Auckland, 1980
ILLUSTRATED Ray Harris-Ching, Masters of the Wild, Gulf Publishing Company, 1990, p. 100
ILLUSTRATED Ray Harris-Ching, Masters of the Wild, Gulf Publishing Company, 1990, p. 100
