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SANKHO CHAUDHURI

(1916 ‒ 2006)

Untitled

Aluminium sheet with black paint and iron

on wooden pedestal

Height: 39.25 in (100 cm)

Width: 21.25 in (54 cm)

Depth: 16.25 in (41 cm)

Rs 10,00,000 ‒ 15,00,000

$ 15,155 ‒ 22,730

PROVENANCE:

Private Collection, Vadodara

Private Collection, Mumbai

EXHIBITED:

Indian Abstracts: An Absence of Form

, New Delhi:

Delhi Art Gallery, 11 August ‒ 30 September 2014;

Mumbai: Delhi Art Gallery, 7 December 2014 ‒

5 February 2015

PUBLISHED:

Kishore Singh ed.,

Indian Abstracts: An Absence

of Form

, New Delhi: Delhi Art Gallery, 2014, p. 113

(illustrated)

SCULPTURE

Indian sculptors working during the time of India’s

independence in 1947, were as interested in looking

for newdirections for expression as their counterparts

whoworked on canvas and paper. “Anumber of these

artists travelled abroad and had seen origina

l works

and imbibed new ideas. Their work is of valu

e firstly

because they together enlarged the whole r

ange of

sculpture, and secondly because many of the

m were

teachers in art institutions and handed do

wn their

ideas to their students. Prodosh Das Gupta,

Sankho

Chaudhury, Dhanraj Bhagat... are some exa

mples.”

(Jaya Appasamy, “Contemporary Indian Sc

ulpture,”

Lalit Kala Contemporary 10

, New Delhi: La

lit Kala

Akademi, p. 2) The following lots represen

t some

of the finest works that emerged from the

leading

sculptors of this generation.

Sankho Chaudhuri