Mt. Everest’s West Side
signed ‘Bangdel’ lower right
Details
- Title : LAIN SINGH BANGDEL MOUNTAINS & MIGRATION
- Year : 1919-2002
- Artist : LAIN SINGH BANGDEL
- Classification : Paintings
- Medium : oil on canvas, framed
- Dimension : 82.5 x 77.3cm (32 1/2 x 30 7/16in)
- Accession No : ITEM 24
- 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 : This late example of Bangdel's painting demonstrates his enduring engagement with the magnificient Himalayas, in addition to the tensions between representation and abstraction. This visual play is often found in Bangdel's work. Here, he renders Mt. Everest, the world's tallest mountain and international symbol of Nepal, in energetic streaks of color that illustrate snow, soil, and ice blue. The tightly cropped image of the peak enhances the painting's drama. A natural monument of sublime scale becomes ethereal through Bangdel's hand and dissolves, like an abstract painting, into a purple and gray fog.