KRISHEN KHANNA (B. 1925)
PROPERTY OF THE WHALEY FAMILY COLLECTION
KRISHEN KHANNA (B. 1925)

Rider

Details
KRISHEN KHANNA (B. 1925)
Rider
inscribed and titled 'KRISHEN KHANNA / RIDER / 133 x 107 cm. / oil' on Pundole Art Gallery label, and further bearing Gallery Chemould label (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
52½ x 42 1/8 in. (133.4 x 107 cm.)
Painted circa 1960s
Provenance
Pundole Art Gallery
Acquired form the above, circa 1970s
Thence by descent

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Lot Essay

Lots 10-14 were acquired by Patrick Whaley when he was setting up the offices of the U.S. based company Johnson & Johnson in India. Having moved to Bombay in the 1960s, Whaley and his wife (known as ‘Pat’ and ‘Pip’) became a well-known Bombay fixture. Pat Whaley initially even took up residence at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel for several years before settling into his Bombay home.

During his time in India, Whaley developed a keen interest in the burgeoning modernist art scene frequently attending exhibitions at Chemould Gallery and Pundole Art Gallery, and becoming a patron in the process. During this period the Whaleys acquired several works, including significant paintings by Maqbool Fida Husain, and B. Prabha as well as rare early examples of Krishen Khanna and Gulam Rasool Santosh which hung on the walls of Pat, Pip and their son Christopher’s (‘Christo’) Bombay apartment in the 1960s and 70s. These paintings made the journey with the Whaley family back to the United Kingdom in the 1970s, where they have remained adorning the family home ever since.

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