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Akbar Padamsee
(1928 - 2020)

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"I don't paint forms, forms emerge from the dynamism of movement." - AKBAR PADAMSEE

After graduating from the J J School of Art in 1951, Akbar Padamsee spent the 1950s and 1960s travelling extensively between Bombay and Paris. In France, he absorbed himself in his surroundings, frequenting libraries, galleries and museums, and became acquainted with notable names from the art world, such as Man Ray and Alberto Giacometti. While the...



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  Lot 24 of 78  

EVENING SALE: MODERN ART
16 SEPTEMBER 2023

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Winning Bid
Rs 4,08,00,000
$491,566

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Akbar Padamsee
Paysage

Signed and dated ‘PADAMSEE/ 61.’ (lower right)
1961
Oil on board
38.5 x 40.5 in (98 x 103 cm)

PROVENANCE
Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris
Catherine Charbonneaux, Paris, 17 October 2004, lot 75
Grosvenor Gallery, London
Acquired from the above
Property from the Jane and Kito de Boer Collection

EXHIBITED
8 Contemporary Painters From India: Interaction of East and West, organised by India-America League at New York: Lever House, 21 June - 7 July 1963
The Moderns Revisited I/III, London: Grosvenor Vadehra, 12 October - 3 November 2006

PUBLISHED
Laxmi P Sihare, 8 Contemporary Painters From India: Interaction of East and West, New York: India-America League, 1963 (illustrated)
The Moderns Revisited I/III, New Delhi: Vadehra Art Gallery, 2006, p. 87 (illustrated)
Bhanumati Padamsee, Annapurna Garimella eds., Akbar Padamsee: Work in Language, Mumbai: Marg Publications in association with Pundole Art Gallery, 2010, p. 195 (illustrated)
Yashodhara Dalmia, "Modernism Reinvented in Bombay: The Art of the Progressives," Rob Dean, Giles Tillotson eds., Modern Indian Painting: Jane & Kito de Boer Collection, Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 2019, p. 136 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Abstract


 









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