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Akbar Padamsee
(1928 - 2020)

Untitled



The present lot, painted when Akbar Padamsee lived in Paris in the early 1950s, represents the earliest phase of the artist's lifelong preoccupation with the human figure. Speaking about these works, Yashodhara Dalmia notes, "Padamsee's early figures, done in the 1950s, were almost iconic in their rigid, frontal stances and the thickly contoured angularity of the bodies. These stiffly erect, archaic forms evoked a feeling of a distant obeisance...



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  Lot 16 of 99  

99 MODERN PAPERWORKS
20-21 JULY 2011

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$8,625
Rs 3,79,500

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Akbar Padamsee
Untitled

1952
Mixed media on paper
12.5 x 9.5 in (31.8 x 24.1 cm)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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