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Saffronart | Evening Sale
Left: Cover of Ranjit Hoskote’s,
The Crucible of Painting:
The Art of Jehangir Sabavala
, Mumbai: Eminence
Designs Pvt. Ltd., 2005.
Above: Sabavala’s dedication to the collector on the
first page of the book, expressing his happiness that the
portrait he painted in 1949 was in good hands.
Image courtesy of Shirin Sabavala
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PROPERTY FROM AN EMINENT COLLECTION, NEW DELHI
46
JEHANGIR SABAVALA
(1922 ‒ 2011)
Untitled
Signed and dated ‘Sabavala ‘49’ (lower right)
1949
Oil on canvas
21 x 17.25 in (53.1 x 43.9 cm)
Rs 30,00,000 ‒ 40,00,000
$ 45,455 ‒ 60,610
PROVENANCE:
Aquired from
Preserve the web of life: An exhibition / auction
of famed yesteryears’ and contemporary Indian Artists from
1857‒1997
, 22‒24 January 1998, lot 128
EXHIBITED:
Preserve the web of life: An
exhibition / auction of famed
yesteryears’ and contemporary
Indian Artists from 1857‒1997
,
New Delhi: India Habitat
Centre, 22‒23 January, 1998
PUBLISHED:
Preserve the web of life: An
exhibition / auction of famed
yesteryears’ and contemporary
Indian Artists from 1857‒1997
,
New Delhi: WWF INDIA, 1998
(illustrated, unpaginated)