Lady in Blue
signed ‘Bangdel 60’ upper left
Details
- Title : Lain Singh Bangdel (Nepalese, 1919-2002)
- Year : 1919-2002
- Artist : LAIN SINGH BANGDEL
- Classification : Paintings
- Medium : gouache on paper, framed
- Dimension : 26 x 16cm (10 1/4 x 6 5/16in)
- Accession No : ITEM 12
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Collection : Bonhams
- Status : AUCTION at BONHAMS London, New Bond Street
- Auction Viewings : 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 : Throughout his life, Bangdel frequently utilized a blue palette to depict his subjects. Bangdel's use of the color suggests a clear reference to Picasso's famous blue period, in which shades of azure and sapphire offered the Spanish modernist a tool for depicting melancholy and society's outcasts. In this work, Bangdel searches for a similar disposition, and enshrouds a woman in not only blue garments, but also a deep, radiating aura. The painting's moody environment casts the central figure as pensive and introspective, as she gently holds a cup.