KRISHEN KHANNA (B. 1925)
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, FLORIDA
KRISHEN KHANNA (B. 1925)

Untitled

Details
KRISHEN KHANNA (B. 1925)
Untitled
signed 'K Khanna' (lower left)
oil on canvas
25 ¾ x 34 in. (65.4 x 86.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1950s
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by Mrs. Olga Perry, circa 1960s
Thence by descent

Olga Perry was the second generation of her family born and raised in India after her grandmother emigrated from Ireland at the age of twenty. A woman of taste with a trained eye for beauty, she was a passionate supporter of young artists from the land of her birth. While living in Calcutta in the 1950s and 60s with her husband, a senior executive at Esso Oil in Southeast Asia, she became a strong supporter of the work of Mother Theresa and her Missionaries of Charity there with the help of Esso Oil.

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