Female Porter
signed ‘Lain Bangdel 1956’ lower left
Details
- Title : Lain Singh Bangdel (Nepalese, 1919-2002)
- Year : 1919-2002
- Artist : LAIN SINGH BANGDEL
- Classification : Paintings
- Medium : gouache on paper, framed
- Dimension : 28 x 17.5cm (11 x 6 7/8in)
- Accession No : ITEM 7
- 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
- Provenance : Property from the Collection of the Bangdel-Shakya Estate, Virginia, USA
- Footnotes : Although painted in Europe, this sensitive depiction of a woman carrying a heavy basket with a head strap further underscores Bangdel's longstanding interest in representing the working class with dignity. Despite being thousands of miles from his childhood home outside Darjeeling, and his ancestral homeland of Nepal, Bangdel not only created many paintings of labor, but he was also a pioneering social realist writer, publishing several Nepali language novels. He is most well known for Langada ko Sathi (Langada's Friend), which was first published in 1951. This novel empathetically narrated the hardships of a disabled beggar in Darjeeling who befriends a stray dog; a groundbreaking subject for its day, especially considering that it was written for an audience that lived in a caste society. As such, we see Bangdel's social concerns manifest in many paintings throughout the 1950s.