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A letter from Khanna to Elliot on the loan form
Loan agreement form signed by Krishen Khanna
The present lot on display at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1982
Photograph by Ebrahim Alkazi reproduced from the MOMA archives
A letter from Art Heritage’s Ebrahim Alkazi to David Elliot, former
director of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, with details on
photographs of works to be loaned to the museum
Present lot published in David Elliott and Ebrahim Alkazi eds.,
India: Myth & Reality, Aspects of
Modern Indian Art
, Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, 1982, pp. 22‒23
In 1982, Khanna loaned the present lot,
among other paintings, to the Museum of
Modern Art in Oxford to be exhibited in the
Myth & Reality: Aspects of Modern Indian
Art
show. The exhibition, held from 27 June
—8 August 1982, was conceived by director
David Elliot, known for curating shows of
geographical diversity.
Aspects of Modern
Indian Art
resulted from the collaborative
efforts of Elliott, Ebrahim Alkazi, who was
also the founder of Art Heritage Gallery,
and British art dealer Victor Musgrave, who
promoted select modern Indian artists
at his galleries in London. Other artists
in that show included Krishen Khanna
himself, Ram Kumar, Nalini Malani, Sudhir
Patwardhan, K G Subramanyan, Bikash
Bhattacharjee, Satish Gujral, among others.
Catalogue entry of Mehta’s
Falling Figure