A. Ramachandran

Melon Seller

UK: Greenford Park WarehouseVAT applies to hammer price and buyer's premium

Auction Closed

October 26, 03:08 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Coups de Coeur: The Guy and Helen Barbier Family Collection

A. Ramachandran

b.1935

Melon Seller

Oil on canvas

Signed and indistinctly dated 'RAMACHANDRAN / 77 - 78' lower right and further signed, dated, titled and inscribed '208.5 cm. x 108 cm. / 'MELON SELLER' 1977 / A. RAMACHANDRAN' on reverse

224.6 x 164 cm. (88 ⅜ x 64 ½ in.)

Painted in 1977

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Acquired directly from the artist in New Delhi, circa 1985

Exhibition catalogue, A. Ramachandran, Kumar Gallery, Delhi, February 1978, unpaginated

K. Chaitanya, India: Myth & Reality Aspects of Modern Indian Art, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1982, illustration p. 28

R. Cornu ed., Coups de Coeur, Geneva, 1987, illustration p. 88

R. Siva Kumar, Ramachandran, A Retrospective, Volume 1, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, 2003, illustration p. 195