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Acharya Vyakul (1930-2000)
Lot 19 PROPERTY FROM THE WILLIAM LOUIS-DREYFUS FOUNDATION

Acharya Vyakul (1930-2000)

Aropana (Establishing), 1991

Closed17 January 2020

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Acharya Vyakul (1930-2000)
Aropana (Establishing), 1991
signed and dated lower right
pigment on paper
10 x 6 ¾ in.

John McEnroe Gallery, New York
William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York, 1998 (acquired from the above)
Gift of the above to The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, 2016

Specialist note

Indian painter Acharya Vyakul worked only when the spirit seized him, using all manner of materials to produce his small and highly charged watercolors. Often favoring his fingers to a brush, Vyakul melds mystical Hindu-Buddhist images with popular art.