Osian's Auction Catalogue Masterpieces and Museum-Quality III | March 2004

74 OSIAN’S 28 PARITOSH SEN (b.1918 / Dacca, present-day Bangladesh) Isabelle Before the Mirror S/d in English t.r. Oil on canvas, 1981 141.7 x 134.1 cm (55.8 x 52.8 in) Rs. 400,000 – 500,000 US$ 8,900 – 11,100 GB£ 4,900 – 8,950 Please refer to p.55 for colour illustration of Lot 28 , Isabelle Before the Mirror, rpt. in Paritosh Sen: In Retrospect, 2001. Further, colour illustration from this significant Isabelle Series are on pp.66 & 70. This series was painted while Paritosh was a visiting Professor at the Maryland Institute of Art (Baltimore, USA) upon the invitation of the Indo-US Sub-commission on Culture & Education. Isabelle was a student of Sen’s from Harlem whose image acted as the metaphor to narrate and comment upon the the social condition, resilience and spirit of the Black American.