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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 3 of 90  

SUMMER ONLINE AUCTION
24-25 JUNE 2020

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$16,200
Rs 11,98,800

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Jamini Roy
Untitled

Signed in Bengali (lower right)
Tempera on card
15.25 x 14.25 in (38.5 x 36.5 cm)

PROVENANCE
Acquired by Eunice Bohanan, India, circa 1950s
(Eunice Bohanan was an important collector of Western art and a donor to the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire, USA)
Acquired from the above, 1996

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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