Description: Tang Haiwen (1927–1991) was a Chinese-born painter who spent most of his professional life in Paris. His work is known for its fusion of the Chinese spiritual aesthetic of ink brush painting with Western abstract expressionism. His reputation has grown since his death thanks to some major retrospective exhibitions. By the mid-1960s, Tang's work was showing a preference for gouache or ink on paper, and traditional Chinese stylistic elements were becoming a feature of his painting. Typical works of this period were quick studies of scenes in the natural world, often rendered in a few brushstrokes, that gave life to his conviction that "painting is the embodiment of energy”. His synthesis of the Eastern Taoist tradition with a Western aesthetic, together with the arresting beauty of his compositions, never cease to attract collector’s attention from all around the world.