Live Auction 3441The Art of Nandalal Bose, Abanindranath Tagore and Rabindranath Tagore: The Supratik Bose Collection
NANDALAL BOSE (1882-1966)
Lot 34

NANDALAL BOSE (1882-1966)

Untitled (Ardhanarishvara)

Closed17 September 2013

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NANDALAL BOSE (1882-1966)
Untitled (Ardhanarishvara)
signed and dated in Bengali (lower right)
tempera on cloth
14½ x 9 5/8 in. (36.8 x 24.4 cm.)
Executed in 1942

Formerly from the collection of the artist
Thence by descent

Specialist note

"Your paint brush colors India's heart, and fills Bengals' treasury with new riches." - Rabindranath Tagore, 1914 (Quoted in, Rhythms of India, exhibition catalogue, Singapore, 2008, p. 104)