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Anjolie Ela Menon
(1940)

Untitled (Birthday Party)





Throughout her career as a painter, Anjolie Ela Menon has regularly re-envisioned her role as an artist. Menon's early canvases exhibited the varied influences of van Gogh, the Expressionists, Modigliani, Amrita Sher-Gil, and M. F. Husain. Mainly portraits, these paintings, according to the artist, “were dominated by flat areas of thick bright colour, with sharp outlines that were painted 'with the vigour and brashness of extreme...



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  Lot 68 of 78  

EVENING SALE | MUMBAI, LIVE
16 FEBRUARY 2017

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Anjolie Ela Menon
Untitled (Birthday Party)

Signed and dated 'Anjolie Ela Menon 2004' (upper left)
2004
Oil on canvas
47.5 x 34.75 in (120.5 x 88.2 cm)

PROVENANCE:
Sotheby's, New York, 19 September 2007, lot 72

EXHIBITED:
Anjolie Ela Menon, New York: Aicon Gallery, 10 December 2004 - 23 January 2005
sixty x one twenty 5, New Delhi: The Oberoi presented by Montage Arts, 6-7 February 2010

PUBLISHED:
sixty x one twenty 5, New Delhi: Montage Arts, 2010 (illustrated, unpaginated)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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