Lady
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 : 61 x 45.5cm (24 x 17 15/16in)
- Accession No : ITEM 9
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Collection : Bonhams
- Status : AUCTION at BONHAMS London, New Bond Street
- Auction Viewings 9 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 : Lady and Anguish suggest a transitory period between Bangdel's representational and abstract styles of painting. Bangdel uses minimal outlines to distinguish amorphous, flowing figures from a pastel colored background. Anguish points toward Bangdel's concurrent interest with the interior lives of the impoverished and lower caste, and suggests the lingering resonances of the Bengal Famine. Here, a seemingly anonymous person with thin limbs hunches over in agony. In 1955, Bangdel explained, "While choosing themes for my works...my heart goes with the poor and the downtrodden. I may be condemned, for my paintings speak too much of human misery. But I do not paint just for the pleasure of the people but for expressing the touching melancholy of a suffering world."