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“Jamini Roy is popularly remembered as the first Indian artist
to have rejected the fashionable art world of the urban elite
in Calcutta, to ‘return’ to explore the visual stimulus of his
childhood, through which he formulated and ultimately
forged a new trajectory for modern art in India.” (Sona
Datta,
Urban Patua: The Art of Jamini Roy
, Mumbai: Marg
Publications, 2010, p. 14) In the latter half of the 1920s,
Roy turned to the various folk arts of his native Bengal,
but it was the scroll‒paintings of Bankura, which grounded
him. Composed with flat colours, Roy’s works were mainly
figurative, with expressive, sweeping lines. Irrespective of the
subject, Roy’s paintings were always deeply rooted to Indian
folk art traditions and techniques.
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JAMINI ROY
(1887 ‒ 1972)
Untitled
Signed in Bengali (lower right)
Tempera on paper
14 x 31.75 in (35.3 x 80.5 cm)
Rs 6,00,000 ‒ 8,00,000
$ 9,525 ‒ 12,700
NON‒EXPORTABLE NATIONAL ART TREASURE
PROVENANCE:
Private Collection, USA
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE
(1861 ‒ 1941)
Untitled
Signed and dated in Bengali (lower left) with artist's seal (upper left)
1936
Pen on paper pasted on paper
9.25 x 6 in (23.3 x 15.3 cm)
Rs 35,00,000 ‒ 55,00,000
$ 55,560 ‒ 87,305
NON‒EXPORTABLE NATIONAL ART TREASURE
PROVENANCE:
Private Collection, Kolkata
Private Collection, New Delhi
EXHIBITED
Manifestations X: 75 Artists,
New Delhi: Delhi Art
Gallery, 26 October ‒ 31 December 2013
PUBLISHED:
Manifestations X: 75 Artists,
New Delhi: Delhi Art
Gallery, p. 165 (illustrated)
Jamini Roy
© Gabriel Irwin
Image courtesy of the photographer’s son