Osian's Auction Catalogue Indian Modern Contemporary Fine Arts | October 2018

Cat and Lobster Tempera on board, 1929-32 19.5 x 13.3 in (49.5 x 33.8 cm) Signed in Bengali ‘Jamini Roy’ l.r. ` 400,000 – 600,000 $ 5,560 – 8330 Provenance & Exhibited Lot 8 Private Kolkata-based Collector, acquired from Jamini Roy’s Paintings 1975 Exhibition (Exhb. Item Number 60) at 18 Ballygunge Place East, Calcutta 700019, between 25th January and 3rd February 1975. This Lot will be accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity from Jamini Roy’s eldest grandson - Debabrata Roy. Lots 9 Private Kolkata-based Collector, acquired from Jamini Roy’s Paintings 1975 Exhibition (Exhb. Item Number 63) at 18 Ballygunge Place East, Calcutta 700019, between 25th January and 3rd February 1975. This Lot will be accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity from Jamini Roy’s eldest grandson - Debabrata Roy. Lots 8 & 9 represent two early & very rare paintings from the 1929–32 period which were exhibited in a major solo exhibition of over 200 artworks in 1975 8 King on a Tiger Tempera on board, 1929-32 18.5 x 13.0 in (47.0 x 33.0 cm) Signed in Bengali ‘Jamini Roy’ l.r. ` 400,000 – 600,000 $ 5,560 – 8330 9 Lot 8 Full image on p.34 Lot 9 Full image on p.35 Lot 14 Full Description on pp.44-45 Other Lots of Artist in this Auction Lot 15 Full Description on pp.46-47 No artist in India of our day has been so deeply obsessed with the fundamental problems of art. His work is totally empty of any topical or illustrative content… To- day he has settled on the simplest compositional scheme reminding one of Rajasthani painters and, like them, has discovered the possibilities of rigidity in plastic forms. Like them, too, at his best moments he attains with the simplest of means to dignity and monumentality. Shahid Suhrawardy rpt. in The Art of Jamini Roy. The Birla Academy of Art & Culture & Birth Centenary Celebration Committee 1987. p17 Detailed Artist Biography osianama.com/artists/ jamini-roy