Lot 36: HAREN DAS (1921-1993) With her Property; Untitled (Shop at Night); Woman at the Well; Summer Bath

HAREN DAS (1921-1993)
With her Property; Untitled (Shop at Night); Woman at the Well; Summer Bath
signed, dated, titled, inscribed and numbered as illustrated
woodcuts on paper (three); etching on paper (one)
45⁄8 x 73⁄4 in. (11.7 x 19.7 cm.) smallest plate; 10 x 133⁄8 in. (25.4 x 34 cm.) largest plate
Executed in 1954, 1958 and 1985; number thirteen from an edition of twenty (one), number twenty from an edition of twenty five (one); four prints on paper

Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.
Provenance

Delhi Art Gallery, New Delhi
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2002, 2009

Exhibited Dhaka, Gallery Chitrak, Eminent printmakers of Bengal, 2012 (one from another edition)

Literature R. Karode, Haren Das, The End of Toil. Prints (1945-1990), New Delhi, 2008, pp. 75, 101 (two from other editions illustrated)
P. Bhattacharya, 'Rest for the weary', Time Out Delhi, 2008, p. 48 (one from another edition illustrated)
Manifestations IV: LXXV Artists, exhibition catalogue, New Delhi, 2010, p. 56 (one from another edition illustrated)
Eminent printmakers of Bengal, exhibition catalogue, Dhaka, 2012 (one from another edition illustrated)
The Art of Bengal, exhibition catalogue, New Delhi, 2012, p. 237 (one from another edition illustrated)
K. Singh, A Visual History of Indian Modern Art: Volume Three, New Delhi, 2015, p. 435 (one from another edition illustrated)