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Jamini Roy
(1887 - 1972)

Untitled (Self Potrait)



"Jamini Roy is popularly remembered as the first Indian artist to have rejected the fashionable art world of the urban elite in Calcutta, to 'return' to explore the visual stimulus of his childhood, through which he formulated a ultimately forged a new trajectory for modern art in India" (Sona Datta, Urban Patua: The Art of Jamini Roy, Marg Publications, 2010, pg. 14). Jamini Roy's childhood - spent in the remote village of Beliatore in West...



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  Lot 5 of 85  

SUMMER ONLINE AUCTION
10-11 JUNE 2015

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Winning Bid
Rs 8,84,520
$14,040

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Jamini Roy
Untitled (Self Potrait)

Initialed in English (lower right)
Gouache and tempera on cardboard
13.5 x 9.5 in (34.3 x 24.1 cm)

NATIONAL ART TREASURE - NON-EXPORTABLE

EXHIBITED AND PUBLISHED:
Indian Portraits: The Face of a People, ed: Kishore Singh, Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2013

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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