Live Auction 19110A Lasting Engagement: The Jane and Kito de Boer Collection
RABIN MONDAL (1932-2019)
Lot 435

RABIN MONDAL (1932-2019)

Brothel-I

Closed23 September 2020

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USD 20,000

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RABIN MONDAL (1932-2019)
Brothel-I
signed 'Rabin Mondal' (on the reverse) and titled, inscribed and dated 'BROTHEL-I / OIL ON CANVAS / 110 x 84 cm / 1962' (on artist's label on the reverse)
oil on canvas
33 x 43 ¼ in. (83.8 x 109.9 cm.)
Painted in 1962

Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

Rabin Mondal's "Cubo-Futuristic experiments with human forms and pictorial space came out in two important paintings [Brothel I & II]. Suddenly violent quarrels break the tenuous peace in sleazy brothels. The verbal violence soon lapses into free fights between the inmates and their patron. The pictorial space with its dynamic corrugation of the surface breaks into the cubist-inspired stylised human forms, vertically slotting the melee of limbs, heads and torsos. The treatment is strongly suggestive of violent futuristic movement." (S. Datta, After The Fall, Time, Life & Art of Rabin Mondal, New Delhi, 2005, p. 79)