Property from a Private Collection, Sweden
Rabindranath Tagore
Untitled (Head of a Woman)
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September 29, 03:49 PM GMT
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270,000 - 350,000 GBP
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Property from a Private Collection, Sweden
Rabindranath Tagore
1861-1941
Untitled (Head of a Woman)
Watercolour and coloured inks on paper laid on backing paper
Signed and dated 'R. Tagore / 8/1/39' lower left
43.3 x 28 cm. (17 x 11 in.)
Painted in 1939
Collection of William "Bill" Elmhirst of Dartington Hall
Sotheby's New York, Modern and Contemporary Art South Asia | India · Pakistan, 18 September 2008, lot 1
London, Nehru Centre, Rabindranath Tagore’s Influence on Modern Indian Art, 7 October 2011
London, Tate Britain, Artist and Empire, 25 November 2015 - 10 April 2016
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
A. Sen, Akarer Mahajatra: Rabindra Chitralekha, Bhashabandhan Prakashani, Kolkata, 2010, unpaginated
U. Prakash, 'Women in Rabindranath Tagore’s Paintings', Art etc., July 2012, unpaginated
A. Meneses, ‘Repository of One Man’s Genius’, Libas, Volume 25, Issue 3, 2012, illustration p. 151
A. Smith et al., Artist and Empire, Tate Publishing, London, 2015, illustration p. 215
C. Corni & S. Datta (eds.), Painting Freedom: Indian Modernism and Its Three Rebels, Edizioni Astragalo, Italy, 2021, p. 234
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