Vivan Sundaram

Acquired by the artist Roy Dalgarno, India, circa 1960s

Cordy's Auckland, 6 October 2015, lot 703

Roy Dalgarno (1910 - 2001) was an Australian social realist painter and printmaker. After studying in Melbourne, he co-founded the Studio of Realist Art in Sydney in 1945. Dalgarno later moved to Paris, where he trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and Atelier 17 in the early 1950s. In 1956, he relocated to India, where he became closely associated with artists including Vivan Sundaram, Himmat Shah, Bhupen Khakhar and Gulammohammed Sheikh. In Bombay, he co-founded Editions Anarkali, a fine-art publishing house. He also taught and served on the Board of Studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda from 1968 to 1975, before settling in Auckland, New Zealand.