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Ram Kumar
(1924 - 2018)

Untitled (Benaras)



“It was not merely outward appearances which were fascinating but they were vibrant with an inner life of their own, very deep and profound, which left an everlasting impression on my artistic sensibility. I could feel a new visual language emerging from the depths of an experience.”
- RAM KUMAR

Through the 1950s, Ram Kumar painted human subjects to convey his own views on the pathos and anguish of the human condition. But by...



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  Lot 45 of 60  

WINTER LIVE AUCTION
13 DECEMBER 2023

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$228,000
Rs 1,89,24,000

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Ram Kumar
Untitled (Benaras)

Circa 1960s
Oil on board
29.25 x 21.75 in (74.5 x 55 cm)

PROVENANCE
Sotheby's, London, 6 October 2015, lot 22
Private Collection, UK
Property from a Private International Collection
Kumar Gallery, New Delhi
Saffronart, New Delhi, 8 September 2016, lot 64
Property of a Distinguished Lady, USA

EXHIBITED
Modernist Art from India: Approaching Abstraction, New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 4 May - 16 October 2012
Modernist Art from India: Radical Terrain, New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 16 November 2012 - 29 April 2013

PUBLISHED
Beth Citron, Modernist Art from India, New York: Rubin Museum of Art (illustrated)
Keshav Malik, Spirit Set Free: Golden Jubilee 1955-2005, New Delhi: Kumar Gallery, 2005, p.182 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Abstract


 









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