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Tyeb Mehta
(1925 - 2009)

Untitled



Witness to the horrors of World War Two and the Partition of India at the outset of his artistic career, the nature and pervasiveness of human violence had a profound and long lasting effect on Tyeb Mehta and his body of work. The artist first explored the 'falling figure' as a vehicle to convey these observations in his paintings and drawings on his return from England in the mid 1960s. In the late 1980s, following a residency at Santiniketan,...



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  Lot 45 of 99  

99 MODERN PAPERWORKS
20-21 JULY 2011

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$43,125
Rs 18,97,500

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Tyeb Mehta
Untitled

Signed and dated in English (upper right)
1993
Crayon on paper
25 x 19.5 in (63.5 x 49.5 cm)

PUBLISHED:
Tyeb Mehta: Ideas, Images, Exchanges, Ranjit Hoskote, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2005

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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