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Rameshwar Broota
(1941)

Confrontation III



An accomplished portraitist, Rameshwar Broota has centred the human form in his practice, specifically the male figure, for most of his career. This preoccupation can be seen as early as his figurative works from the late 1960s that focus on the emaciated, taut strength of labourers’ bodies. Drawn to “the tensile strength of their rippling muscles as they pushed and pulled and grappled with heavy loads or worked with hammer and other tools”, he...



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  Lot 57 of 60  

WINTER LIVE AUCTION
13 DECEMBER 2023

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$264,000
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Rameshwar Broota
Confrontation III

2001
Oil on canvas
100 x 100 in (254 x 254 cm)

(Diptych)

PROVENANCE
Acquired from Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
Property from the Jane and Kito de Boer Collection

EXHIBITED
Rameshwar Broota: Recent Paintings, New Delhi: Shridharani Gallery, 10 - 19 December 2001
Counterparts: Recent Paintings by Rameshwar Broota, New Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery, 14 - 21 February 2009; New Delhi: Shridharani Gallery, 27 February - 8 March 2009
Visions of Interiority: Interrogating the Male Body, Rameshwar Broota - A Retrospective, New Delhi: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, 14 October 2014 - 1 March 2015
Rameshwar Broota: Visions of Interiority, Online: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, June 2020

PUBLISHED
Keshav Malik and Gayatri Sinha, Rameshwar Broota: Recent Paintings, New Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery, 2001, p. 10, 23 (illustrated)
Yashodhara Dalmia and Salima Hashmi eds., Memory, Metaphor, Mutations: Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 120 (illustrated)
Roobina Karode, Counterparts: Recent Paintings by Rameshwar Broota, New Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery, 2009, p. 62 (illustrated)
Roobina Karode, Rameshwar Broota: Interrogating the Male Body, New Delhi: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, 2015, p. 148, 232 (illustrated)
Kishore Singh ed., The Stare of Destiny: Rameshwar Broota – Masterpiece XXXII, New Delhi: DAG, 2018, p. 24 (illustrated)
"Rameshwar Broota in Conversation With Rob Dean & Kito de Boer," Rob Dean and Giles Tillotson eds., Modern Indian Painting: Jane & Kito de Boer Collection, Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 2019, p. 255 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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