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Ram Kumar
(1924 - 2018)

Untitled (Benares)



Born in 1924 in Simla, Ram Kumar was among India’s leading modernists. He studied Economics at St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, in 1946. Following this, he went to Paris to study painting under Andre Lhote and Fernard Leger in 1949-1952.

Ram Kumar, like many of his confreres among the first generation of post-colonial Indian artists - including such figures as F N Souza, M F Husain, Paritosh Sen, Jehangir Sabavala, Krishen Khanna, S...



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  Lot 9 of 76  

ALIVE: EVENING SALE OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART
17 SEPTEMBER 2020

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Rs 7,80,000
$10,685

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Ram Kumar
Untitled (Benares)

Signed, inscribed and dated in Devnagari (lower left)
1982
Ink wash on paper pasted on mount board
15 x 22.5 in (38 x 56.9 cm)

PROVENANCE
Formerly from the Collection of Bal Chhabda
Thence by descent
Private Collection, New Delhi

Category: Painting
Style: Unknown


 









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