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Jamini Roy
(1887 - 1972)

Untitled (Deer in a Landscape)



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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WINTER LIVE AUCTION
13 DECEMBER 2023

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Winning Bid
Rs 13,20,000
$15,904

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Jamini Roy
Untitled (Deer in a Landscape)

Signed in Bengali (lower right)
Circa 1940s
Tempera on cardboard
16 x 10.5 in (40.5 x 26.5 cm)

NON-EXPORTABLE NATIONAL ART TREASURE

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist in 1943 by Stuart Gelder, war correspondent for the News Chronicle in India
Thence by descent
Private UK Collection
Acquired from the above

EXHIBITED
South Asian Modern Art 2023, London: Grosvenor Gallery, 9 - 30 June 2023

PUBLISHED
South Asian Modern Art 2023, London: Grosvenor Gallery, 2023, p. 19 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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