Suburb of Calcutta
signed and dated ‘Bangdel 1943’ lower right
Details
- Title : LAIN SINGH BANGDEL MOUNTAINS & MIGRATION
- Year : dated 'Bangdel 1943'
- Artist : LAIN SINGH BANGDEL
- Classification : Paintings
- Medium : watercolour on paper, framed
- Dimension : 29 x 21cm (11 7/16 x 8 1/4in).
- Accession No : ITEM 1
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Collection : Bonhams
- Status : AUCTION at BONHAMS London, New Bond Street: (AS PER BONHAMS WEBSITE on 11/21/2023) 11 November 2023, 11:00 - 15:00 GMT 12 November 2023, 11:00 - 15:00 GMT 13 November 2023, 09:00 - 16:30 GMT 14 November 2023, 09:00 - 16:30 GMT 15 November 2023, 09:00 - 16:30 GMT 16 November 2023, 09:00 - 16:30 GMT 17 November 2023, 09:00 - 16:30 GMT 20 November 2023, 09:00 - 16:30 GMT 21 November 2023, 09:00 - 16:30 GMT
- Provenance : Property from the Collection of the Bangdel-Shakya Estate, Virginia, USA.
- Footnotes : In 1939, Bangdel moved from Darjeeling, a British hill station in the Himalayan foothills, to the bustling metropolis of Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta), the capital of the Indian state of Bengal, to pursue his artistic studies. There, he enrolled in the Government School of Art and Craft. This painting, a sensitive depiction of Kolkata's impoverished suburbs, was painted after Bangdel studied watercolors with Zainul Abedin, a Bangladeshi artist who had documented the Bengal Famine, a cataclysmic event that had a significant impact on Bangdel's art and writing. Here, Bangdel carefully articulates each plank of wood, each angle of architecture with a single brushstroke. As Bangdel began experimenting with abstraction in later works, these linear elements planes, lines, walls, and roofs would begin manifesting themselves in future works as abstract formal devices.