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Mulk Raj Anand's essay, "Gaganendranath Tagore's Realm of the Absurd"
Published in Pulinbihari Sen ed.,
Gaganendranath Tagore
, Kolkata: The Indian Society of Oriental Art, 1972, pp. 54‒55
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GAGANENDRANATH
TAGORE
(1867 ‒ 1938)
a) Untitled
Pencil on paper
10 x 7 in (25.2 x 17.7 cm)
b) Untitled
Initialled ‘G.T.’ (lower right)
Pencil on paper
9.75 x 7 in (24.8 x 17.7 cm)
Rs 15,00,000 ‒ 20,00,000
$ 22,390 ‒ 29,855
NON‒EXPORTABLE
NATIONAL ART TREASURE
(Set of two)
PROVENANCE:
Acquired directly from the artist’s
family, Kolkata
Private Collection, India
a
b
Gaganendranath Tagore
Reproduced from Samik
Bandyopadhyay ed.,
Paintings of
Gaganendranath Tagore
, Kolkata:
Pratikshan, 2015 , p. 381
With kind permission from Pratikshan
The present lot shows two preparatory drawings
from a rare sketchbook, offering a glimpse into
Gaganendranath Tagore’s artistic process. The
finished drawings for (b) are in the collection
of Rabindra Bhavana at the Visva‒Bharati
in Santiniketan, and the Rabindra Bharati
Society in Kolkata. They have been published
in Samik Bandyopadhyay ed.,
Paintings of
Gaganendranath Tagore
, Kolkata: Pratikshan,
2015, pp. 233, 239, 240; and Pulinbihari Sen ed.,
Gaganendranath Tagore
, Kolkata: The Indian
Society of Oriental Art, 1972, p. 55.