Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art
Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art
Property from a Private Collector
Portrait of an Artist I
Auction Closed
March 21, 06:10 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from a Private Collector
Rameshwar Broota
b. 1941
Portrait of an Artist I
Oil on canvas
Indistinctly inscribed lower right. Further signed, dated, titled and inscribed 'R. Broota / (RAMESHWAR BROOTA) / 1965 / PORTAIT (sic) OF / AN ARTIST (I) / NEW DELHI - 110001' on reverse
26 ¾ x 18 ⅛ in. (67.9 x 46 cm.)
Painted in 1965
Painted at the very start of his career, Rameshwar Broota’s portraits are among the artist's rarest works and considered gems within his œuvre. His portraiture has been compared with the self-portraits of Vincent Van Gogh, a comparison emphatically felt in the fluid brushwork, thick impasto and the figure’s earnest expression in the current lot.
‘Broota had excelled in portraiture right from his college days. He had painted a galaxy of portraits of self, friends and family, some in thick impasto and spontaneous brushwork, reminiscent of Van Gogh’s intense self-portraits, and others in which the strokes are more blended and subdued.’
(R. Karode, ‘Visions of Interiority: Interrogating the Male Body’, Rameshwar Broota, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, 2015, p. 21)