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Ganesh Pyne
(1937 - 2013)

The Masks



The Calcutta of Ganesh Pyne's childhood saw an onslaught of disasters, with political unrest and a devastating famine in the early 1940s, communal riots in 1946, and then the violence that accompanied the Partition of India a year later, all of which left the city battered and agitated. The scenes of despair and darkness that the artist remembers from his childhood have left an unmistakable mark on his artistic sensibility, and the forms and...



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  Lot 21 of 75  

AUTUMN ART AUCTION
19-20 SEPTEMBER 2012

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Ganesh Pyne
The Masks

Signed and dated in Bengali (lower right)
1994
Tempera on canvas
21 x 23 in (53.3 x 58.4 cm)

PROVENANCE:
Bodhi Art, New Delhi

PUBLISHED:
Ganesh Pyne: His Life and Times, Ella Dutta, Centre for International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata, 1998

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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