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Krishen Khanna
(1925)

Untitled



Krishen Khanna's earliest paintings of bandwallas followed a period in which his work largely meditated on war, death and persecution at the hands of authority. Almost as if a natural progression, in these paintings, "…the soldiers elide into the bandwallahs, and the military style uniforms are now rendered faux or even comic. The comparison of the bandwallahs with warlords is in fact ironic and overt; both these sets of gentlemen wear uniforms...



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  Lot 26 of 80  

SPRING ART AUCTION
28-29 MARCH 2012

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Winning Bid
Rs 11,76,000
$24,000

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Krishen Khanna
Untitled

Signed in English (lower left and verso)
Acrylic on canvas
35.5 x 17.5 in (90.2 x 44.4 cm)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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