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Baiju Parthan
(1956)

Two Friends Meet



Initially, Baiju Parthan resisted a career as an artist. "In Kerala," he explains, "you are what your work is. And in Kerala's Communist schema, the artist is at the lowest rung of society." Parthan began as an engineer, but was drawn into the world of art in 1974, when he stumbled onto a book detailing the history of Western art. "With that book," he says, "the chronology and the institution of art became known to me." He became familiar with...

Based on:
Catalogue by Ranjit Hoskote
Interview by Sylee Gore



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  Lot 59 of 90  

SUMMER AUCTION 2010
16-17 JUNE 2010

Estimate



Winning Bid
Rs 1,56,400
$3,476

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Baiju Parthan
Two Friends Meet

Signed and dated in English (lower center and verso)
1997
Acrylic and ink on handmade paper
21 x 29 in (53.3 x 73.7 cm)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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