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Jamini Roy (1887-1972)
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- Jamini Roy
- The Last Supper
- Signed in Bengali lower right
- Tempera on card
- 8 1/2 by 26 in. (21.5 by 66 cm.) unframed
Provenance
Purchased by the current owner's father during a trip to India in the 1940s
Catalogue Note
In 1937 Jamini Roy began to work on a theme that he felt related to problems of independence and defiance, the career of Christ. This focus was the catalyst for a change in style which moved away from the Kalighat idiom and instead had greater affinities with Byzantine art.