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Bhupen Khakhar
(1934 - 2003)

Twins



Born in Mumbai in 1934, Bhupen Khakhar trained and worked as a chartered accountant before turning to painting and moving to Baroda in the early 1960s. An entirely self-taught artist, Khakhar developed a highly individualized artistic vocabulary, arriving at a "…hybrid idiom in which Rousseau, Hockney, Sienese pedellas, the oleographs of the Bazaar, the temple maps of Nathdwara and awkward observations of 'Company' painters, are all fused...



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  Lot 49 of 65  

SUMMER ART AUCTION
15-16 JUNE 2011

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Bhupen Khakhar
Twins

Signed and dated in Gujarati (lower right) and English (verso)
1990
Oil on canvas
34 x 34 in (86.4 x 86.4 cm)

PROVENANCE:
Acquired directly from the artist
Private Collection, United Kingdom

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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