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Manchershaw F Pithawalla
(1872 - 1937)

Portrait of a Parsee Scholar



Born in 1872 in the village of Pitha near Surat, Manchershaw Fakirjee Pithawalla moved to Bombay where he was discovered and trained by John Griffiths, the then principal of J J School of Art. He went on to gain recognition as an artist and exhibited his works widely in Shimla, Darjeeling, Madras, and Pune, where he also won several awards. In 1905, he was commissioned to produce an album celebrating Indian women to be presented to Queen Mary on...



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  Lot 5 of 102  

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

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$54,000
Rs 44,01,000

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Manchershaw F Pithawalla
Portrait of a Parsee Scholar

Signed 'M.F. PITHAWALA' (lower right)
Oil on canvas
31.5 x 25.5 in (80 x 64.8 cm)

PROVENANCE
Property from an Important Private Collection, UK

PUBLISHED
Gilles Tillotson, “Making Magic Through the Real: Some Early Episodes of Modern Indian Art,” Rob Dean, Giles Tillotson eds., Modern Indian Painting: Jane & Kito de Boer Collection, Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2019, p. 81 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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