Lot 11
  • 11

Rabindranath Tagore

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Death Scene
  • Signed 'Rabindra' lower right

  • Gouache and coloured inks on paper

  • 25.5 by 35.5 cm. (10 by 14 in.)

Provenance

Purchased from the artist at Santiniketan, October 1932

Exhibited

'Drawings, paintings, engravings, pottery and leatherwork by Sir Rabindranath Tagore', Government School of Art, Calcutta, 20-29 February, 1932.


Victoria and Albert Museum, 1954-6.

Commonwealth Institute, London, S.W.7.
'Poet's Pictures: The Drawings of Rabindranath Tagore', May 1961.


India House, Tagore Centenary Exhibition, Nov. 1961.


'Arts of Bengal', Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1980.

Literature

'Drawings, paintings, engravings, pottery and leatherwork by Sir Rabindranath Tagore', Government School of Art, Calcutta, February 1932., no.191, pl.10.

'Poet's Pictures: The Drawings of Rabindranath Tagore', May 1961, no.8.

'Arts of Bengal', Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1980, no.135.

 

Condition

Very Good overall condition, colours of original slightly richer than catalogue illustration with a great range of tones in browns and blues, as viewed.
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