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Jamini Roy
(1887 - 1972)

Untitled (Rider with an Umbrella)



Born in 1887 in a small village in Beliatore, Bankura district, West Bengal, Jamini Roy joined the Government School of Art, Kolkata in 1903. He began his career by painting in the Post-Impressionist genre of landscapes and portraits, very much in keeping with his training in a British academic system. Yet, by 1925, Roy had begun experimenting along the lines of popular bazaar paintings sold outside the Kalighat temple in Kolkata. By the early...



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SPRING LIVE AUCTION
13 MARCH 2024

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Rs 15,60,000
$19,024

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ARTWORK DETAILS

Jamini Roy
Untitled (Rider with an Umbrella)

Signed in Bengali (lower right)
Circa 1940s
Tempera on card pasted on mount board
22.75 x 27 in (57.5 x 68.5 cm)

NON-EXPORTABLE NATIONAL ART TREASURE

PROVENANCE
Formerly in the Collection of Russi Mody, Kolkata
DAG, New Delhi

PUBLISHED
Poetry and Patriotic Fervour Indian Art Pre-Independence, New Delhi: DAG, 2003, p. 43 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Figurative


 









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