Signed in English and dated on bottom left. "After a six-year hiatus from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s, Ting returned to oil painting, not only engaging in archaic script-inspired subjects but also injecting poetic images borrowed from traditional Chinese landscape painting…soundly confirm Ting's ability to create a dynamic fusion of his dual-Eastern and Western-orientations. This fusion culminates in Boating in the Lake, dated 1971, in which Ting's visual vocabulary-ancient script, calligraphic line, strong colours, and compositional simplicity-though present, is subtly restrained. He thereby attains a highly developed and unique eclecticism."