Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art
Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art
Property from a Private Collection, Maryland
Bimal Das Gupta
Composition
Auction Closed
March 21, 06:10 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Maryland
Bimal Das Gupta
1917 - 1995
Composition
Oil and pencil on canvas
Signed and dated 'B. Das Gupta 80' on reverse
Bearing distressed Dhoomi Mal Gallery label 'CON NO. DMG_43/BDG/9 SIZE 36 x 48 / ARTIST NAME BIMAL DAS GUPTA / TITLE COMPOSITION' on reverse
47 ⅞ x 35 ⅞ in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 1980
‘Bimal Dasgupta’s paintings have always been based on nature right from the very beginning. His roots in the riverine landscape of Bengal have contributed to his imagery. While he started painting with realistic landscapes after his 1961 tour of Europe, he took to abstraction, but always with visual clues pointing to identify the painting as a landscape. Even his short-term use of TANTRIC imagery points to his roots in nature. He started off with watercolour landscapes, but his abstract works were mostly in oils, the nature of the medium contributing to impasto swirls and drips that characterize them.’
(P. Sheth, Dictionary of Indian Art & Artists, Maplin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2006, p. 104)