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

54 OSIAN’s – Connoisseurs of Art N. S. Bendre b. 21 August 1910 – d. 19 February 1992 Versova Oil on canvas, 1950 34.2 x 38.0 in (86.8 x 96.5 cm) Signed in Devanagari ‘Bendre’ l.r. ` 3,000,000 – 4,500,000 $ 41,670 – 62,500 Full DPS image on pp.52-53 Provenance Acquired directly from the artist N.S. Bendre prior to 1964 by a Mumbai-based art collector. This Lot will be accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity from the artist’s son Padmanabah Narayan Bendre. A brilliant painting created in the year he joins M.S. University (Baroda) as the Head of the Art Department, where his later pointillist style emerges in his brush strokes 18 Detailed Artist Biography osianama.com/artists/ n-s-bendre