Woman with Musical Instrument
B. Prabha Nagpur 1933 - Mumbai 2001
Lot-No. 672
Proceeds : 11.100 €
Oil/canvas, 102 x 63 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. B. Prabha 1964. - Prov.: Acquired by the consignor in the 1960s at an exhibition in Bombay directly from the artist. - Indian woman artist, inspired by Amrita Sher-Gil, studied at the Nagpur schoolf of art a. at the Sir J. Jeejebhoy school of art in Mumbai, she was married to the sculptor B. Vithal. In a typicall two-dimensional elegant style with one colour dominating each painting she mainly depicts the lifes of Indian women during a period when women artists were most unusual in India a. women were generally oppressed. - Mus.: New Delhi (Nat. Gall.) a. others.
B. Prabha: Woman with Musical Instrument
B. Prabha Nagpur 1933 - Mumbai 2001
Woman with Musical Instrument
Lot-No. 672
Proceeds : 11.100 €
Oil/canvas, 102 x 63 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. B. Prabha 1964. - Prov.: Acquired by the consignor in the 1960s at an exhibition in Bombay directly from the artist. - Indian woman artist, inspired by Amrita Sher-Gil, studied at the Nagpur schoolf of art a. at the Sir J. Jeejebhoy school of art in Mumbai, she was married to the sculptor B. Vithal. In a typicall two-dimensional elegant style with one colour dominating each painting she mainly depicts the lifes of Indian women during a period when women artists were most unusual in India a. women were generally oppressed. - Mus.: New Delhi (Nat. Gall.) a. others.