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Jamini Roy
(1887 - 1972)

Gandhi



Born in Bankura, West Bengal, in 1887, Jamini Roy was an early pioneer of Indian modernism, renowned for his distinctive flat, linear style reminiscent of indigenous folk art and Kalighat pats. However, long before he developed this signature pictorial language, he trained in Western academic realism at the Government School of Art and Craft, Calcutta, in 1903-04. In the initial few years of his career, he established himself as an...



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  Lot 71 of 130  

SPRING ONLINE AUCTION
13-14 MARCH 2024

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$26,400
Rs 21,64,800

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Jamini Roy
Gandhi

Initialled 'J.R' (lower right)
Gouache on card
12.25 x 9.25 in (31 x 23.5 cm)

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist
Collection of a West Country Family, UK
Sotheby's, New York, 25 March 2011, lot 204
Property of an Important Private Collecion, UK

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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