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Manishi Dey 1940s Modernist Painting from India

Indian modernist painting Media: Oil on sandal wood Title: 'Faith, Is The Bird That Feels The Light When The Dawn Is Still Dark' Date: c.1940s Measures 12.15" x 18" sight size, and 15.15" x 21" x 1.5" overall including framing. Good condition. Provenance: From a California collection. About the artist: Manishi Dey (India, 1909-1966) was the brother of Mukul Dey, an important figure in early modern art of India. Manishi travelled and showed his works all across India during his lifetime. He studied with many other influential artists of his country including Indian artists, poets and cultural icon Abanindranath Tagore.  This work is an early modernist oil painting in the manner of the Bengal School of Art and appears to have been created while Manishi was working with Tagore. Note: Manishi Dey is the brother of another influential Indian artist, Mukul Dey. Manishi studied with famous Indian poet Abanindranath Tagore and this work's title is a fragment of a Tagore poem.

Manishi Dey - Modernist Painting from India

Indian modernist painting Media: Oil on sandal wood Title: 'Faith, Is The Bird That Feels The Light When The Dawn Is Still Dark' Date: c.1940s Measurements: 12.15in. x 18in. sight size, and 15.15in. x 21in. x 1.5in. overall including framing. Condition: Good condition. Notes: Manishi Dey is the brother of another influential Indian artist, Mukul Dey. Manishi studied with famous Indian poet Abanindranath Tagore and this work's title is a fragment of a Tagore poem. Provenance: From a California collection. About the artist: Manishi Dey (India, 1909-1966) was the brother of Mukul Dey, an important figure in early modern art of India. Manishi travelled and showed his works all across India during his lifetime. He studied with many other influential artists of his country including Indian artists, poets and cultural icon Abanindranath Tagore.  This work is an early modernist oil painting in the manner of the Bengal School of Art and appears to have been created while Manishi was working with Tagore.

MANISHI DEY | Daughter of the Soil

Oil on board

MANISHI DEY ; MUKUL DEY (1909 - 1966); (1859 - 1989)

MANISHI DEY ; MUKUL DEY (1909 - 1966); (1859 - 1989) Landscape with huts, Portrait of a lady Watercolour on paper; pencil on paper 4 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (12 x 19.6 cm.) ; 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. (24.7 x 16.5 cm.) Signed 'MANISHI DEY' lower right; signed and dated 'April 8 1918/Mukul Dey' lower right Manishi Dey, younger brother of Mukul Dey, was a student of Abanindranath Tagore at Santiniketan where he mastered the techniques of the Bengal School, later becoming a proponent of Japanese Sumi-e painting, first brought to the school by his brother Mukul and Nandalal Bose. Mukul Dey was a student of Rabindranath Tagore and a pioneer of the Pan-Asian movement that Tagore supported at the initiative of Japanese scholar, Okakura. Dey studied with Okarura's students in Tokyo, and they in turn studied with him at Santiniketan. Mukul mastered Japanese print-making and applied it to Indian subject matter. He travelled to the United States to continue his studies and learned the Western approach to etchings. Many portraits similar to the current work produced as etchings or in pencil, now form part of the collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi.

*Manishi Dey, Trees