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Krishen Khanna
Bandwallas in Practice


- - It was in the early 1970s that Krishen Khanna first explored the subject of bandwallas, or members of local brass bands engaged to play at weddings and other public ceremonies. Speaking of how he came to paint his first portraits of these musicians, Khanna explains that once, while driving out of his Delhi studio, the path was blocked by the marching band of a wedding procession. The image of these musicians dressed all in red with their big bras
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KRISHEN KHANNA: A RETROSPECTIVE

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  • Krishen Khanna
  • Bandwallas in Practice
  • 2002
  • Oil  on  canvas
  • 72 x 48 in (182.9 x 121.9 cm)
  • From the Collection of Karan Khanna
  • EXHIBITED AND PUBLISHED:
    Public Airing: Works on Canvas, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, 2004

    PUBLISHED:
    Krishen Khanna, A Critical Biography, Gayatri Sinha, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, 2001
  • Category: Painting
    Style: Figurative



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