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K H Ara
(1914 - 1985)

Untitled



"Still life as a genre of painting in India was to come into its own with Krishnaji Howlaji Ara," says Yashodhara Dalmia in the essay "The Stillness of Life: Krishnaji Howlaji Ara." A self-taught artist, Ara's association with the Progressive Artists' Group likely heightened his innate modernist sensibilities and led him to discover his own unique painterly vocabulary. "Ara's ceaseless experiments with bowls, fruits and vases with flowers were...



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  Lot 64 of 84  

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8-9 APRIL 2020

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ARTWORK DETAILS

K H Ara
Untitled

Signed 'ARA' (lower right)
Mixed media on paper pasted on canvas
29.25 x 42.25 in (74.3 x 107.2 cm)

PROVENANCE
Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
Property from a Distinguished Parsi Collection, Mumbai

Category: Painting
Style: Still Life


 









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