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Jamini Roy
(1887 - 1972)

Untitled (Woman in Green)



“Jamini Roy’s chequered yet glorious career as an artist of great stature and prolificness not only endowed the art connoisseurs of our country with an elegantly simple Indian art form, but also enhanced common man’s faithful taste in the original root art bearing the massive scope of expression of both mundane and mystic life, deeply en?rooted in the widespread tradition of Indian folk art.” (Debashis Dhar, “Jamini Roy: A Martyr to his own...



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  Lot 2 of 102  

SUMMER ONLINE AUCTION: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN ART
28-29 JUNE 2023

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Winning Bid
Rs 13,20,000
$16,196

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Jamini Roy
Untitled (Woman in Green)

Signed in Bengali (lower right)
Tempera on cardboard pasted on board
15.75 x 10.75 in (40 x 27 cm)

NON-EXPORTABLE NATIONAL ART TREASURE

PROVENANCE
Acquired by Joseph A O'Brien, while stationed in Calcutta as a member of the United States Army Air Force, 1944-46
Thence by descent
Private Collection, California
Christie's, New York, 23 September 2020, lot 518 b)
Private Collection, New Delhi

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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