Rameshwar Broota

Portrait of an Artist

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October 26, 03:08 PM GMT

Estimate

35,000 - 50,000 GBP

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Coups de Coeur: The Guy and Helen Barbier Family Collection

Rameshwar Broota

b. 1941

Portrait of an Artist

Oil on canvas

Signed, dated and inscribed in Devanagari centre right and further signed, dated, titled and inscribed 'R. Broota / RAMESHWAR BROOTA / PORTRAIT OF / AN ARTIST / 1970 / TRIVENI KALA / SANGAM / 205 / TANSEN MARG / N. DELHI 110001 / INDIA' on reverse

Bearing distressed All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi label on reverse

80.6 x 60.5 cm. (31 ¾ x 23 ⅞ in.)

Painted in 1970

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Acquired directly from the artist at Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, circa 1984

‘Broota had excelled in portraiture right from his college days. He had painted a galaxy of portraits of self, friends and family, some in thick impasto and spontaneous brushwork, reminiscent of Van Gogh’s intense self-portraits, and others in which the strokes are more blended and subdued.'

(R. Karode, ‘Visions of Interiority: Interrogating the Male Body’, Rameshwar Broota, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, 2015, p. 21)