Arpita Singh (b.1937)

Sotheby's New York, October 10, 1997, lot 24

Overall very good condition. Thick application of paint on canvas, some areas of exposed canvas along the upper edge. Colors fresher than catalogue illustration.
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Arpita Singh's careful combination of whimsical compositions, her bold use of color and her confident control of her medium reveals her extraordinary talent as a painter. Her bright palette is perhaps the most characteristic feature of her recent work. Gayatri Sinha notes: "Arpita Singh has pushed the visual lexicon of the middle-aged woman further than almost any other woman artist. The anomaly between the aging body and the residue of desire, between the extraordinary and the divine and the threat of violent fluxes of the impinging external world, gives her work its piquancy and edge. At the same time, she critiques the miasma of urban Indian life with suggestive symbols of violence that impinge on the sphere of the private, creating an edgy uncertainty." (Gayatri Sinha, www.grosvenorgallery.com)