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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, MUMBAI
75
JAGANNATH PANDA
(b. 1970)
Water
Signed and dated 'Jagannath Panda 05' (lower right); signed,
dated and inscribed 'Jagannath Panda 05/ JAGANNATH PANDA/
'WATER' ‒ 2005' (on the reverse)
2005
Acrylic on canvas
72.25 x 82.75 in (183.3 x 210.5 cm)
Rs 15,00,000 ‒ 20,00,000
$ 23,810 ‒ 31,750
PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist
Jagannath Panda’s paintings and sculptures are based on
issues of migration, displacement and alienation which
result from urbanisation in his native Orissa, and his current
home on the outskirts of New Delhi. In
Water
, painted in
2005, class and social divides are made unsettlingly stark
through juxtaposition. A pristine, empty swimming pool
in the foreground is in sharp contrast to a crowd gathered
around a water tanker in an arid expanse of land in the
background. A pole perched at the edge of the swimming
pool forms a literal divide between the beneficiaries of
urbanisation, and those marginalised as a result of it. A
lone crow, nonchalant and free of societal class structures,
sips water from the private swimming pool while the
disenfranchised masses await a turn at collecting water for
their daily needs.