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Jamini Roy
(1887 - 1972)

Untitled



Born in 1887 in a small village in Beliatore, Bankura district, West Bengal, Jamini Roy joined the Government School of Art, Kolkata in 1903. He began his career by painting in the Post-Impressionist genre of landscapes and portraits, very much in keeping with his training in a British academic system. Yet, by 1925, Roy had begun experimenting along the lines of popular bazaar paintings sold outside the Kalighat temple in Kolkata. By the early...



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  Lot 28 of 70  

MODERN EVENING SALE | MUMBAI, LIVE
12 FEBRUARY 2015

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Jamini Roy
Untitled

Signed in Bengali (lower right)
Tempera on canvas
22 x 75.5 in (55.9 x 191.8 cm)

NATIONAL ART TREASURE - NON-EXPORTABLE

PROVENANCE:
Private Collection, UK
Private Collector, North India

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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