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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 44 of 78  

EVENING SALE | MUMBAI, LIVE
16 FEBRUARY 2017

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Winning Bid
Rs 14,40,000
$21,818

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Jamini Roy
Untitled

Signed in Bengali (lower right)
Circa 1950s
Gouache on cardboard pasted on board
21 x 28 in (53.3 x 71.1 cm)

NON-EXPORTABLE NATIONAL ART TREASURE

PROVENANCE:
Private Collection, California
Christie's, New York, 21 March 2007, lot 5
Private Collection, New Delhi

EXHIBITED:
The Art of Bengal, New Delhi: DAG Modern, 25 January - 17 March 2012

PUBLISHED:
Kishore Singh ed., The Art of Bengal, New Delhi: Delhi Art Gallery, 2012, p. 239 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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