Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art
Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art
Coups de Coeur: The Guy and Helen Barbier Family Collection
Melon Seller
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
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