Sunayani Devi

Untitled

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Property from a Private Collection, Sweden

Sunayani Devi

1875 - 1962

Untitled

Watercolour and pencil on paper laid on card

Indistinctly inscribed lower right

36 x 25.3 cm. (14 ⅛ x 10 in.)

Collection of Kishore Chatterjee, Kolkata

Acquired from the above, 2011

Kishore Chatterjee (1938 - 2011) was an Indian artist, writer, singer, music and art critic, and the grandson of Sunayani Devi. Throughout his life, he pursued a wide range of creative interests, producing paintings, essays, poetry, short stories and books on music and art. He was especially respected for his deep knowledge of Western classical music, which he popularised through lectures, radio programs, newspaper columns, films, and publications. Chatterjee's vibrant visual art, marked by imaginative symbolism and vivid colour, reflected the eclectic and humanistic spirit of the artistic tradition he inherited from his family.

Leicester, Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Painting Freedom: Indian Modernism and Its Three Rebels, 11 September 2021 - 21 November 2021

London, Brunei Gallery SOAS, Painting Freedom: Indian Modernism and Its Three Rebels, 11 April 2024 - 22 June 2024

C. Corni & S. Datta (eds.), Painting Freedom: Indian Modernism and Its Three Rebels, exhibition catalogue, Edizioni Astragalo, Italy, 2021, p. 173