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Atul Dodiya
(1959)

The Titanic Days



Atul Dodiya’s oeuvre is full of references to cinema, from Bollywood films like Baazigar and Sholay to the works of auteur Satyajit Ray, stars like Amitabh Bachchan and iconic Hindi cinema villains. This present work, named The Titanic Days after the 1928 René Magritte painting it features, is characteristic of Dodiya’s quotational practice which puts pictorial elements from diverse, sometimes surprising, sources in dialogue...



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  Lot 124 of 130  

SPRING ONLINE AUCTION
13-14 MARCH 2024

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Rs 26,40,000
$32,195

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Atul Dodiya
The Titanic Days

Signed, inscribed and dated 'ATUL DODIYA/ "THE TITANIC DAYS"/ 2006-2010/ Atul 06 - 2010' (on the reverse)
2006 - 2010
Enamel paint and synthetic varnish with gold on laminate pasted on plywood
72 x 47.75 in (183 x 121.5 cm)

PROVENANCE
Vadehra Art Gallery
Private Collection, New Delhi

EXHIBITED
Saptapadi: Scenes from a Marriage (Regardless), New Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery, 2 - 24 March 2007

PUBLISHED
Ulka Anjaria, Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture, Mumbai: Orient Blackswan, 2019, cover page (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Abstract


 









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