Lot 41
41
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more From the Collection of the late Barbara Buchanan
George Keyt (1901-1993)

Untitled (Six Dancers)

Details
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)
Provenance
Gift from the artist to Barbara Buchanan
Thence by descent to the present owners
Special Notice
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Further Details
Barbara Buchanan, Bombay, circa 1953; photograph courtesy of the Family Archive

Lot Essay

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.

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