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Akbar Padamsee
(1928 - 2020)

Untitled (Metascape)



"... I had an exhibition...titled mirror images. The diptychs were of equal size and images were either reversed or repeated in the adjacent canvas. Form and colour underwent change, as they passed from one canvas to the other, as if waking from sleep - two worlds, both the similar and dissimilar at the same time."
- Akbar Padamsee

"Luminous metascapes," such as the present lot are one of Akbar Padamsee's signature...



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  Lot 41 of 75  

EVENING SALE | NEW DELHI, LIVE
10 SEPTEMBER 2015

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Winning Bid
Rs 4,20,00,000
$646,154

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Akbar Padamsee
Untitled (Metascape)

Signed and dated 'PADAMSEE 94' (upper left)
1994
Oil on canvas
42 x 85.5 in (106.7 x 217.2 cm)

(Diptych)

PROVENANCE
Private Parsi Collection, Mumbai
Saffronart, 6-7 December 2006, lot 90
Acquired from the above by the present owner

EXHIBITED
Akbar Padamsee: Mirror - Images, Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay, 1994

PUBLISHED
Meher Pestonji ed., Akbar Padamsee: Mirror - Images, Bombay: Pundole Art Gallery, 1994 (illustrated, unpaginated)

Category: Painting
Style: Abstract


 









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