Lot 9
  • 9

Jamini Roy

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jamini Roy
  • Santal Drummers
  • Signed in Bengali lower right
  • Tempera on card
  • 39.4 by 28 cm. (15½ by 11 in.)

Provenance

Purchased from the artist in Calcutta in 1941.

Literature

W.G. Archer, India and Modern Art, London, 1959, pl.34

Condition

Pin hole to lower left corner and minor paint shrinkage to lower right corner, overall fair condition, colours slightly more muted than catalogue illustration, especially yellow background, as viewed.
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Catalogue Note

According to the Archers' records this work was produced in c.1936.