BIREN DE (1926-2011)

Widows

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BIREN DE (1926-2011)
Widows
signed and dated ‘Biren de ‘57’ (lower left); further titled, dated and signed ‘“Widows” 1957 / BIREN DE / Biren de ‘57’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
26 ¾ x 42 ¼ in. (67.9 x 107.3 cm.)
Painted in 1957

Provenance

Private Collection, New Delhi
Heart Intuitive Logic, 27-28 November 1999, lot 198
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

The Window is Open, exhibition catalogue, Bombay, 1998, p. 12 (illustrated)

Exhibited

Bombay, The Window, The Window is Open, 4-16 February 1999

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Lot Essay

Biren De's paintings from the 1950s "are of stylized figures in a compressed space. The figures and the environment are bound together by a strong grid of black lines, the colours, which are filled in are militant and cannot be ignored. They are either somber or luminous; the figures are sharply modeled and have a peg like three-dimensionality. Each part of the figures is distinct and to a certain degree a symbol of itself, yet it is united and belongs to a whole.” (J. Appaswamy, Lalit Kala Contemporary, no. 6, April 1967, pp. 28-30)

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