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Jitish Kallat
(1974)

Anatomy of a Midnight Sneeze - I



A dedicated documenter of the city of Mumbai and its metropolitan ways of life, Jitish Kallat’s canvases reveal the nuances of urban existence in a megalopolis that is allied to both the past and the future through a cipher of images, text and subtle references.

In the present lot, Kallat uses a lurid palette dominated by vermillion to portray a street-child, and, in doing so, to wittily bring to the viewer’s attention the precarious...



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  Lot 66 of 90  

SUMMER AUCTION 2010
16-17 JUNE 2010

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Jitish Kallat
Anatomy of a Midnight Sneeze - I

Inscribed and dated in English (verso)
2005
Acrylic on canvas
69 x 47 in (175.3 x 119.4 cm)

EXHIBITED:
10th Annual Harmony Show, Mumbai, 2005 Bird on a Wire, The Arts Trust, Mumbai, 2005

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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