Modern & Contemporary South Asian Auction
Modern & Contemporary South Asian Auction
The Surya Collection: Property from Mrs. Ute Rettberg
Sunita Shrestha
Untitled
Auction Closed
October 25, 02:50 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Surya Collection: Property from Mrs. Ute Rettberg
Sunita Shrestha
b. 1940
Untitled
Oil on canvas
Signed 'SUNITHA SHRESTHA.' on reverse
70.2 x 70 cm. (27 ⅝ x 27 ½ in.)
Painted circa 1978
Acquired directly from the artist, Surya Galerie, Freinsheim, 1979
The exceptional abstractionist, Sunita Shrestha, studied at the Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay. There, she met her husband, Laxman Shrestha, who likewise became a master of abstraction. Sunita and Laxman moved in intimate circles of Indian artists and collectors, counting Maqbool Fida Husain, Vasudeo S. Gaitonde and Jehangir Nicholson among their close friends. Sunita’s exquisite paintings recall the incredible gradation of colour seen in the work of her friend Gaitonde, but her exact and atmospheric deployment of delicate geometric forms is wholly unique.