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Surendran Nair
(1956)

I Beg Your Pardon: The Scorpion Act II - An Actor Meditating on a Character of an Imaginary Play (Cuckoonebulopolis)



Surendran Nair’s works act as a vehicle, one that places complex messages about identity and society at the forefront. The present lot is an early work from his Cuckoonebulopolis series, an ode to the perfect world between heaven and earth that the Greek playwright Aristophanes conjured in his work, Birds. Negotiating the tumultuous relationship between the ideal and the real, Nair creates a charged space on his canvases for his...



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  Lot 88 of 102  

SUMMER ONLINE AUCTION: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN ART
28-29 JUNE 2023

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Rs 21,60,000
$26,503

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Surendran Nair
I Beg Your Pardon: The Scorpion Act II - An Actor Meditating on a Character of an Imaginary Play (Cuckoonebulopolis)

Inscribed, dated and signed '"I Beg Your Pardon: THE SCORPION ACT II - An Actor/ Meditating On A Character Of An Imaginary Play. (CUCKOONEBULOPOLIS)" - 2002/ Surendran/ SURENDRAN NAIR' (on the reverse)
2002
Oil on canvas
70.75 x 46.5 in (180 x 118 cm)

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist
Private Collection, New York
Saffronart, Mumbai, 12 February 2015, lot 33
An Important Private Collection, New Delhi

EXHIBITED
Under the Skin of Simulation, Berlin: The Fine Art Resource, 15 September - 3 October 2003

PUBLISHED
Under the Skin of Simulation: Three Contemporary Painters From India, Berlin: The Fine Art Resource, 2003
Ranjit Hoskote, Itinerant Mythologies: Surendran Nair, Mumbai: Sakshi Gallery, 2009, pp. 7, 67 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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