Lot 452
  • 452

Riyas Komu

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Riyas Komu
  • Systematic Citizen XIV
  • signed and titled on the reverse

  • oil on canvas
  • 86 by 60 in. 218.4 by 152.4 cm.
  • Executed in 2006.

Provenance

Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New Delhi, Palette Art Gallery, Systematic Citizen, September - October 2006, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good overall condition. There is evidence of wear and rubbing along the extreme edges, most noticeably there are four small unobtrusive abrasions along the left edge. There is a 1 inch impression in the stretcher bar located 13 inches from the top edge along the extreme right edge. A faint stretcher bar impression is evident at the figure's right cheek. Not examined under ultraviolet light. Unframed.
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