Osian's Auction Catalogue Creative India Series 1 Bengal | December 2011

a BanindranaTH T agore 7 August 1851 – 5 December 1951 Bird Watercolour on paperboard, 1938-40 Signed in Devanagari ‘Avanindra’ l.l. 10.3 x 6.9 in (26.6 x 17.5 cm) Provenance ‘Family Collection of Shoma Chatterjee. Ms Chatterjee is the daughter of Manindranath Tagore (s/o Samarendranath Tagore, the elder brother to Abanindranath Tagore).’ ` 800,000 – 1,200,000 US$ 16,000 – 24,000 National Art Treasure Non-Exportable Item 27 1780 1800 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1910 1920 1925 1930 1935 1940 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 2000 Creative India BENGaL | Abanindranath Tagore 61 60 from An important family collection “Along with the landscapes mention must be made of the pictures Abanindranath did with animals and birds as their theme...it becomes apparent that more than ideation or imagination, it is the naturalistic element which received maximum emphasis in these later pictures... one may safely conclude Abanindranath started depending more on colour and form of the subject in nature than on ideas or impressions thereof.” [Mukherjee, Benode Behari [Text] [1988]. Abanindranath Tagore. New Delhi: National Gallery of Modern Art; p.39]