Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art

Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art

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Property from a Private Collection, Brooklyn

Krishna Shamrao Kulkarni

Untitled

Auction Closed

March 16, 05:25 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Brooklyn

Krishna Shamrao Kulkarni

1916 - 1994

Untitled


Oil on canvas 

Signed and dated in Devanagari lower right 

47 ¼ x 35 ¼ in. (120 x 89.5 cm.)

Framed: 52 x 40 in. (132 x 101.6 cm.)

Painted in 1960

Acquired from the artist by Ambassador and Mrs. Kenneth Rush, India, early 1960s 
Thence by descent
 
Ambassador Rush (1910 - 1994) was a life-long diplomat, business leader and educator. He served as Ambassador of the United States in France and West Germany. He is credited with playing a major role in the successful negotiation of the ground-breaking Quadrapartite Agreement in 1971 that ended the post-war crisis over Berlin. He was a key White House adviser in the Nixon and Ford administrations. Ambassador and Mrs. Rush would travel to India annually for business. Mrs. Rush assembled a large collection of contemporary Indian art.