Labels:text OCR: ARTS an interpreter and gradually started selling his paintings to professionals in the Chinese commu- nity "From 1980 to 1985, I took my paintings to the universities to hold over 30 exhibitions and opened a new field in the Chinese community," recalls Ting. "My paintings sold well even then, but I began to worry that if I continued to sell my paintings like that, they could reach only individual families-I would have no chance to break into the American art circle. I had to find a way out." It was a letter campaign to art dealers that finally paid off. In 1986 Ron Segal of California- based Segal Fine Art spent four hours in Ting's home looking at his work He chose three of Ting's paintings and took them to the New York Art Expo. Within a day, they had sold for up to US$8,500 EYES OF PREY each-Harmony, Ashima at Sunrise and Mother Then came Europe. In June 1989 Segal took and Child. Ting's paintings to Paris for exhibitions. At a major Inspired by the success in New York, Segal de- cided to take Ting's pieces to Japan in 1986. And, sale in the Gallery Bernheim, French buyers were at first hesitant. The Americans and Japanese unsurprisingly, they sold quickly. The Japanese pushed for a prompt decision. Within half an hour press proclaimed Ting as one of the few foreign after the exhibition opened, Ting's originals were painters to "break the prohibition" by successfully sold at surprisingly high prices of between selling in Japan. US$40,000 to US$60,000 each. Today Ting paint-
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