Lot 4
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE | Untitled (Rider in Night)

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Untitled (Rider in Night)
  • Signed and dated in Bengali lower right
  • Watercolour and ink on paper
  • 14.1 x 15.1 cm. (5 ½ x 5 ⅞ in.)
  • Painted in 1936

Provenance

Acquired in Calcutta in the 1950s by a private Ohio collector
Purchased from Aicon Gallery, New York, June 2009  

Exhibited

London, Aicon Gallery, The Emergence of Indian Modern Art, 13 January - 19 February 2011
London, Nehru Centre, Rabindranath Tagore’s Influence on Modern Indian Art, 7 October 2011
Venice, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Frontiers Reimagined, 9 May - 22 November 2015 

Literature

A. Sen, Akarer Mahajatra: Rabindra Chitralekha, Bhashabandhan Prakashani, Kolkata, 2010, unpaginated
N. Kumar, Rabindranath Tagore, Nehru Centre, London, 2011, unpaginated
S.Tagore, Frontiers Reimagined, Marsilio, Venice, 2015, p. 118

Condition

There is light rubbing around the edges and near the rider's head. The sides are slightly frayed and uneven which is possibly inherent. The painting is in good overall condition, as viewed.
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