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Himmat Shah
(1933)

Untitled




Himmat Shah was born in 1933 at Lothal in Gujarat. After initially training as a drawing teacher, he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of M.S. University, Baroda, from 1956 to 1960. He was a National Cultural Scholar in 1956, and received a French Government scholarship to study etching at Atelier 17, Paris in 1967.

Shah was a member of Group 1890, a short-lived artists’ collective founded by J. Swaminathan. The then...



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  Lot 86 of 86  

MODERN INDIAN ART
5-6 DECEMBER 2018

Estimate



Winning Bid
Rs 12,00,600
$17,400

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Himmat Shah
Untitled

Signed, dated and inscribed 'HIMMAT/ 2006/ 5/5' (lower right)
2006
Bronze
Height: 16.5 in (41.9 cm)
Width: 8.5 in (21.9 cm)
Depth: 9.25 in (23.4 cm)

Fifth from a limited edition of five

PROVENANCE
Saffronart, 9-10 September 2009, lot 88

EXHIBITED
Himmat Shah, presented by Saffronart at London: Berkeley Square Gallery, 10 - 22 May 2007 (another from the edition)

PUBLISHED
Gayatri Sinha ed., An Unreasoned Act of Being: Sculptures by Himmat Shah, Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 2007, pp. 44, 46, 47 (illustrated, another from the edition)

Category: Sculpture
Style: Figurative


 









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