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Himmat Shah
(1933)

Kiss




Himmat Shah was born in 1933 at Lothal in Gujarat. After initially training as a drawing teacher, he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of M.S. University, Baroda, from 1956 to 1960. He was a National Cultural Scholar in 1956, and received a French Government scholarship to study etching at Atelier 17, Paris in 1967.

Shah was a member of Group 1890, a short-lived artists’ collective founded by J. Swaminathan. The then...



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  Lot 35 of 80  

SPRING ART AUCTION
28-29 MARCH 2012

Estimate



Winning Bid
Rs 8,59,656
$17,544

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Himmat Shah
Kiss

Inscribed and dated in English (base)
2006
Bronze
Height: 33.5 in (85.1 cm)
Width: 20.5 in (52.1 cm)
Depth: 6.5 in (16.5 cm)

Fifth from a limited edition of five sculptures
Illustrated is another view of the sculpture

EXHIBITED:
Exhibition of Bronze Sculptures by Himmat Shah, Berkeley Square Gallery, London, 2007 (another from the edition)

PUBLISHED:
An Unreasoned Act of Being: Sculptures by Himmat Shah, Gayatri Sinha, Mapin Publishing, Ahmedabad, 2007

Category: Sculpture
Style: Figurative


 









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