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- Title : Lain Singh Bangdel (Nepalese, 1919-2002)
- Year : 1919-2002
- Artist : LAIN SINGH BANGDEL
- Classification : Paintings
- Medium : oil on canvas, framed
- Dimension : 50 x 66cm (19 11/16 x 26in)
- Accession No : ITEM 8
- 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 : While in Paris in the 1950s, Bangdel met the artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who were renowned for developing Cubism, a distinct style of painting that depicted subjects from multiple perspectives simultaneously. These meetings affected Bangdel, who had admired Braque and Picasso since his youth. This painting represents one of Bangdel's first experiments with non-representational painting, an abstraction without recognizable subject matter. A cluster of forms compositionally similar to Full Moon Night, also on view in this gallery, gathers at the painting's center. Rectangular cells of white, gray, ochre and rust layer on top of one another like a dissolved cityscape, while two pyramid shapes occupy the center of the composition. Evocative of Nepal's flag, which is the only non-rectilinear national flag, these double peaks also appear in the painting Moon over Kathmandu.