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Rameshwar Broota
(1941)

The Lost Self



“The central theme of my several phases has always been man and his life.”
- RAMESHWAR BROOTA

Although Rameshwar Broota spent his nascent career in the 1950s and 1960s as an accomplished portraitist, it was in the late 1960s that he began centring the male form in his work. In most of his oeuvre, he uses this subject as a means of interrogation of the self and to examine and transcend the existential concerns of humanity. Moved...



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  Lot 36 of 55  

SPRING LIVE AUCTION
13 MARCH 2024

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Winning Bid
Rs 3,60,00,000
$439,024

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Rameshwar Broota
The Lost Self

Signed twice, inscribed and dated 'R. Broota/ RAMESHWAR BROOTA/ NEW DELHI/ THE LOST SELF/ 1971' (on the reverse), further inscribed and dated 'THE LOST SELF 1971' (on the stretcher bar on the reverse)
1971
Oil on canvas
50 x 78 in (127 x 198 cm)

PROVENANCE
Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
Property from the Collection of Simran & Vir Kotak

EXHIBITED
Visions of Interiority: Interrogating the Male Body, Rameshwar Broota - A Retrospective, New Delhi: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, 14 October 2014 - 1 March 2015
The Fold, Noida: Number 8, 2019

PUBLISHED
Roobina Karode, Rameshwar Broota: Interrogating the Male Body, New Delhi: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, 2015, p. 76, 226 (illustrated)
Vir Kotak and Shaleen Wadhwana, The Fold, Noida: The Eight Foundation Collection, 2019, p. 44 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Unknown


 









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