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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW DELHI
14
V S GAITONDE
(1924 ‒ 2001)
Portrait of Bhanu Rajapadhya
Signed and dated in Devnagari (upper right); inscribed ‘GAITONDE:
“portrait of Bhanu Rajapadhya” / Bhanu later marries ATHIYA‒ SHE
WON AN OSCAR FOR HER COSTUME DESIGNS IN “GANDHI” /
THIS PAINTING WAS GIVEN TO ME BY GAITONDE IN 1952.’ (on the
hardboard on the reverse)
1952
Oil on canvas pasted on board
20 x 17.25 in (51 x 43.6 cm)
Rs 2,00,00,000 ‒ 3,00,00,000
$ 298,510 ‒ 447,765
Inscription on reverse of painting
PROVENANCE:
Acquired directly from the artist in exchange for
one of the owner’s paintings in 1952
EXHIBITED:
V.S. Gaitonde: Works from Private Collections
, New
Delhi: Saffronart, 21 January ‒ 4 February 2011
PUBLISHED:
Sandhini Poddar ed.,
V.S.Gaitonde: Painting as
Process, Painting as Life
, New York: Guggenheim
Museum Publications, 2014, p. 48 (illustrated)
Roshan Sahani and Narendra Dengle,
Vasudeo
Santu Gaitonde: Sonata of Light
, Mumbai:
Bodhana Arts and Research Foundation, 2016, p.
60 (illustrated)