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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 6 of 55  

SPRING LIVE AUCTION: MODERN INDIAN ART
6 APRIL 2022

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Winning Bid
Rs 7,80,000
$10,400

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Jamini Roy
Untitled

Signed in Bengali (lower right)
Tempera on cardboard
10.5 x 11.75 in (26.7 x 30 cm)

NON-EXPORTABLE NATIONAL ART TREASURE

PROVENANCE
From the Collection of General Meneses, New Delhi (Mr Meneses was a general in the Indian army and a collector of such works in the 1950s)
Thence by descent
Private Collection, London
Private Collection, New Delhi

EXHIBITED
Ghare Baire | The World, The Home and Beyond: 18th-20th Century Art in Bengal, presented by DAG at Kolkata: Old Currency Building, 12 January 2020 – 28 November 2021

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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