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Prodosh Das Gupta
(1912 - 1991)

Untitled (Suryamukhi)



Prodosh Dasgupta was trained in sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts and LCC Central School, London, and the Ecole de Grand Chaumier, Paris, after completing his initial studies in sculpture at the Government School of Art and Craft, Chennai, and the Lucknow School of Arts and Crafts. He returned to India in 1940, and went on to serve as Curator of the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi from 1957 to 1970. He believed that abstraction...



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  Lot 80 of 87  

EVENING SALE | NEW DELHI, LIVE
8 SEPTEMBER 2016

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Prodosh Das Gupta
Untitled (Suryamukhi)

Inscribed and dated '5/5 / P Das Gupta / 1978' (on the reverse on the base)
1978
Bronze
Height: 19 in (45.5 cm)
Width: 28 in (71 cm)
Depth: 36.75 in (93.5 cm)

Fifth from a limited edition of five

PROVENANCE:
Acquired from the artist's family
Private Collection, Kolkata
Private Collection, New Delhi

EXHIBITED:
Exhibition of Sculptures by Shri Prodosh Das Gupta, New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 15 March - 7 April 2012; Kolkata: Victoria Memorial Hall, 25 July - 12 August 2012; Chennai: Lalit Kala Akademi, 25 September - 5 October 2012 (another from the edition)
3 Masters, New Delhi: Akar Prakar Art Advisory, 19 January - 28 February 2015 (another from the edition)

PUBLISHED:
Kishore Singh ed., The Naked and the Nude: The Body in Indian Modern Art; Edition Two, New Delhi: Delhi Art Gallery, 2013, p. 147 (illustrated)

Category: Sculpture
Style: Figurative


 









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