Lain Singh Bangdel (Nepalese, 1919-2002)

Lain Singh Bangdel (Nepalese, 1919-2002)

Kathmandu Valley
signed ‘Bangdel’ 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 : 59.8 x 74.2cm (23 9/16 x 29 3/16in)
  • Accession No : ITEM 19
  • Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
  • Collection : Bonhams
  • Status : AUCTION at BONHAMS London, New Bond Street
  • Auction Viewings (AS PER BONHAMS WEBSITE) 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
  • Related Departments : Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art
  • Provenance : Property from the Collection of the Bangdel-Shakya Estate, Virginia, USA.
  • Footnotes : Here, Bangdel turns his attention from the sublime, staggering peaks of the Himalayas to the rolling, lush environs of the Kathmandu Valley. He uses passages of gold, ochre, and emerald—streaked with black—to carve out a tranquil, embracing landscape outside of Nepal's bustling capital, Kathmandu. Bangdel creates a gentle sense of dimension with this land, enough to evoke the terraced farming in the hills and valleys of Nepal that enables the region's agricultural production. Painted over a decade after Moon over Kathmandu (1962), also on view in this exhibition, this work utilizes the fragmented style Bangdel once deployed to render metropolitan spaces, exchanging the urban subject for pastoral tranquility.