Jagdish Swaminathan
Untitled
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March 18, 03:53 PM GMT
Estimate
90,000 - 130,000 USD
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Jagdish Swaminathan
1928 - 1994
Untitled
Oil on canvas
Signed in Devanagari on reverse and bearing Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, India: Contemporary Art from Northeastern Private Collections exhibition label on reverse of frame
29 ⅞ x 40 in. (76 x 101.7 cm.)
Acquired from Dialectica Gallery, New York, 1999
Dialecteca Gallery was run by Cristina Naithani at 415 Broadway in Soho New York at the turn of the 21st century. With a special focus on contemporary Indian Art, it was conceptualized to showcase the East-West dialogue.
This work was part of an exhibition titled The Promise of Modernism: Art in India 1890- 1947, curated by Sundaram Tagore. The show was celebrated for its academic approach to presentation and curation and received favorable reviews including in the New York Times on 17 December 1999.
New York, Dialecteca Gallery, The Promise of Modernism: Art in India 1890- 1947, 15 December 1999 – 15 January 2000
New Jersey, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, India: Contemporary Art from Northeastern Private Collections, 7 April – 31 July 2002
New York, Aicon Contemporary, Modern Folk, 29 April – 22 May 2010
J. Wechsler and U. Gaur, India: Contemporary Art from Northeastern Private Collections, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Jersey, 2002, cover (detail) and illustration p. 116
P. Bhaggeria and P. Malhotra, Elite Collectors of Modern and Contemporary Indian Art, Elite Media Pvt Ltd., New Delhi, 2008, illustration p. 104