Abstract II
signed ‘Bangdel 69’ lower right
Details
- Title : Lain Singh Bangdel (Nepalese, 1919-2002)
- Year : 1919-2002
- Artist : LAIN SINGH BANGDEL
- Classification : Paintings
- Medium : oil on canvas, framed
- Dimension : 126.3 x 122.2cm (49 3/4 x 48 1/8in).
- Accession No : ITEM 17
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Collection : Bonhams
- Status : AUCTION at BONHAMS London, New Bond Street
- Auction Viewings at Bonhams : 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
- Related Departments at Bonhams : Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art
- Provenance : Property from the Collection of the Bangdel-Shakya Estate, Virginia, USA.
- Footnotes : In an unpublished essay written in 1980, Bangdel attributed his journey as an artist to a formative childhood encounter with Mt. Kanchenjunga, the world's third tallest mountain located in Sikkim on the border between India and Nepal. "It just happened one day," writes Bangdel, "as I was roaming around on the hill in the evening, no one was there...I was totally mesmerized by the lovely golden shade, due to sunset, on Mt. Kanchenjunga." While "I had seen that sun before, and I had also seen that mountain before," Bangdel explains, that day's "sunset was so powerful that it left an unforgettable mark on my child soul." In this moment, Bangdel experienced the profound importance of perception and the possibility of seeing something so familiar, anew. These shifts in perspective were themes he frequently returned to in his abstract painting.