Live Auction 7814South Asian Modern & Contemporary Art
Christie’s roundel
Lot 41 From the Collection of the late Barbara Buchanan

George Keyt (1901-1993)

Untitled (Six Dancers)

Closed10 June 2009

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GBP 30,000

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George Keyt (1901-1993)
Untitled (Six Dancers)
all signed and dated 'G Keyt 47' (upper left or upper right)
gouache and white chalk on paper
24¾ x 14¾ in. (62.7 x 37.7 cm.) each
Executed in 1947
Set of six drawings (6)

Gift from the artist to Barbara Buchanan
Thence by descent to the present owners

Specialist note

Barbara Buchanan worked as an editor for the Oxford University Press in Bombay in the early 1950s. It was through her work that she met George Keyt and they developed an intimate friendship, maintaining a life-long correspondence until Keyt's death in 1993.