Sankho Chaudhuri

Lot 16: SANKHO CHAUDHURI (1916-2006)

Name: SANKHO CHAUDHURI (1916-2006)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: bbc1e6fba1

Est: $30,000 USD - $50,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USSeptember 13, 2011

Item Overview

Description

SANKHO CHAUDHURI (1916-2006)
Untitled (Figure of a Woman)
bearing label 'Property of Mr. & Mrs. T. B. Keehn" (on the base)
wood
30 1/8 x 13¾ x 10 3/8 in. (76.5 x 34.9 x 26.4 cm.)
Executed in 1956

Artist or Maker

Sankho Chaudhuri

Exhibited

New Delhi, Shankho Chaudhuri, 1957
New York, BosePacia Modern, The Keehn Collection: Important Paintings of Post-Independence India, September - October 1997
New Brunswick, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, India: Contemporary Art from Northeastern Private Collections, April - July 2002

Literature

Thomas B. Keehn, India Ink: Letters from India 1953-61 by Martha McKee Keehn and The Keehn Collection of Modern Indian Art, New Delhi, 2000, p. 114 (illustrated)
Jeffrey Wechsler and Umesh Gaur, India: Contemporary Art from Northeastern Private Collections, New Jersey, 2002, p. 40, pl. 17 (illustrated)

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist
Thence by descent

Notes

PROPERTY FROM THE KEEHN FAMILY COLLECTION

SANKHO CHAUDHURI (1916-2006)
Untitled (Figure of a Woman)
bearing label 'Property of Mr. & Mrs. T. B. Keehn" (on the base)
wood
30 1/8 x 13¾ x 10 3/8 in. (76.5 x 34.9 x 26.4 cm.)
Executed in 1956

Auction Details

South Asian Modern & Contemporary Art

Christie's

September 13, 2011, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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