Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art

Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art

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Property from a Private Asian Collection

Sailoz Mookherjea

Untitled (Shiva)

Auction Closed

March 16, 05:25 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Asian Collection

Sailoz Mookherjea

1906 - 1960

Untitled (Shiva) 


Ink and watercolor on card

Signed 'Sailoz Mookherjea' lower right 

13 ⅞ x 9 ⅞ in. (35.2 x 25 cm.)

Unframed

Acquired directly from the artist in Calcutta circa 1930s
Private Collection
Thence by descent 
Considered to be one of India’s most influential modernist painters, Sailoz Mookherjea was posthumously declared a National Art Treasure by the Indian government in the 1970s. His formative years as an artist were spent at the Government College of Arts in Calcutta under the tutelage of stalwarts like Abanindranath Tagore. The artist later moved to Delhi, seeing the new urban center as uncharted territory, at a time when modernism was gaining ground in Bengal. While interested in European modernism, Mookherjea developed a style of painting that was resolutely his own, largely inspired by his Indian context and the art historical heritage of the Subcontinent.