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BHUPEN KHAKHAR | In the Room

估價
800,000 - 1,000,000 INR
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描述

  • Bhupen Khakhar
  • In the Room
  • Signed in Gujarati and titled 'In the room' lower right
  • Watercolour on paper
  • 30.5 x 26.9 cm. (12 x 10 ½ in.)
  • Painted in 1979

展覽

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Bhupen Khakhar, 6 June - 16 September 2002
Mumbai, The National Gallery of Modern Art, Bhupen Khakhar: A Retrospective, 4 - 26 November 2003

出版

E. Juncosa, Bhupen Khakhar, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2002, illustration p. 104
U. Mirchandani, Bhupen Khakhar: A Retrospective, The Fine Art Resource, Mumbai, 2003, illustration p. 68 

Condition

Small spots of foxing and yellowing are visible throughout. A pin-hole sized depression to the surface is present along the upper right edge. Minor creases to the paper are also apparent, most notably on the head of the figure on the right and the hanging clothes. The reverse of the paper has not been examined as it is glued to the mount. The work is in good overall condition for its age, as viewed.
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拍品資料及來源

‘… watercolour has provided [Bhupen Khakhar] with a more playful and spontaneous kind of image-making... As a watercolourist he is free of the pressure of The Masterpiece (part of the inheritance of western oil painting) and closer to the popular artists of Indian tradition... In the seventies, Khakhar's watercolours were mostly of things seen - a still-life, a tree, a shrine, a single figure, or perhaps some vignette glimpsed from the bus or train. Unlike the oil paintings, they did not attempt to create some encompassing world.' (T. Hyman, Bhupen Khakhar, Chemould Publications and Arts, Bombay, 1998, p. 63)