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Provenance
Ambika Dhurandhar, the artist's daughter.
Private UK collection from 1995.
The bunds at Poona extend along the banks of the Mula and Mutha rivers. Dhurandhar would often have visited Poona, en route between Bombay and his family home in Kolhapur; as the major provincial Maratha city, Poona contained cultural, educational and Prabhu Pathare caste establishments with strong links to Bombay.
The scene of the second painting lies in Dhurandhar's family home, where he was brought up before he moved to Bombay. His command in this picture (executed in 1892) of both British and Parisian fin-de-siecle chalk drawing hence strongly conveys subjectively-felt affection and warmth.