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OCTOBER 2023 DECORATIVE & FINE ART SALE
Lot 229:
Ram Kumar (1924 – 2018), oil on canvas painting depicting an abstract cityscape. Signed on the verso top right: Ram Kumar, dated 81. Dimensions noted: 25 1/2 x 31 in. Housed in a wooden frame.
Born in 1924 in Simla, Ram Kumar was among India’s leading modernists. He studied Economics at St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, in 1946. Following this, he went to Paris to study painting under Andre Lhote and Fernand Leger from 1949-1952. Ram Kumar, like many of his confreres among the first generation of post-colonial Indian artists – including such figures as F N Souza, M F Husain, Paritosh Sen, Jehangir Sabavala, Krishen Khanna, S H Raza and Akbar Padamsee – combined an internationalist desire with the need to belong emphatically to their homeland.
Dimensions: 25 1/2 x 31 in., (64 x 79 cm.)
Condition:
We examined the painting under a blue light. There are small paint flakes along the top and bottom edges of the canvas where it meets with the frame. Please note the frame was removed to take better images.
No part of the canvas glares or shows any type of restoration or alteration. The canvas is old and looking at the verso we could see a few spots where the primer was visible through the canvas thining.
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