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Lot 21
Baiju Parthan
(1956)

Empathy - II



Initially, Baiju Parthan resisted a career as an artist. "In Kerala," he explains, "you are what your work is. And in Kerala's Communist schema, the artist is at the lowest rung of society." Parthan began as an engineer, but was drawn into the world of art in 1974, when he stumbled onto a book detailing the history of Western art. "With that book," he says, "the chronology and the institution of art became known to me." He became familiar with...

Based on:
Catalogue by Ranjit Hoskote
Interview by Sylee Gore



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  Lot 21 of 135  

AUCTION SEPTEMBER 2006
6-7 SEPTEMBER 2006

Estimate



Winning Bid
Rs 13,98,375
$31,075

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Baiju Parthan
Empathy - II

Inscribed and dated in English (verso)
1997
Mixed media on paper
30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.9 cm)

Exhibited and Published: Indian Contenporary Fine Art, Saffronart and Apparao Galleries, Los Angeles, 2001

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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