Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art
Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art
Property from a Private American Collection
Prosanto Roy
Untitled (Rani)
Auction Closed
March 21, 06:10 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 USD
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Property from a Private American Collection
Prosanto Roy
1908 - 1973
Untitled (Rani)
Watercolor and gouache on card
Signed in Devanagari lower right and further indistinctly signed in English, dated 'January. 1936,' inscribed 'Ranji / Rani . / The song feels the infinite in the air, / the fiction in the earth, the poem in the air and the earth; / For its words have meaning that / walks and music that soars. Rabindranath _. / 10" / one colour on line', and inscribed in Bengali on reverse
10 ⅜ x 4 ¾ in. (26.6 x 12.1 cm.)
Painted in 1936
Prosanto Roy was a Bengal School artist who sought to integrate figuration with a keen sense of geometric design. His themes were often rooted in fairytales and myth, and the fragmented, kaleidoscopic approach he took to his work furnished his images with a mysterious, mystical quality. In his stylistic choices, Roy was inspired by Cubism, especially as practiced by Gaganendranath Tagore, which in turn was derived from principles of the Bauhaus movement. Roy was closely connected to the Tagores, studying first under Rabindranath Tagore and then with Abanindranath. Roy was appointed curator of the Kala Bhavan at Santiniketan in 1952, and he taught there until his death in 1973.