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Lot 22*

Narayan Shridhar Bendre
(Indian, 1910-1992)
Untitled (Landscape)

Amended
6 June 2023, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£15,000 - £25,000

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Narayan Shridhar Bendre (Indian, 1910-1992)

Untitled (Landscape)
signed lower left
oil and acrylic canvas on paper
48.4 x 29.7cm (19 1/16 x 11 11/16in).

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Provenance
Property from a private collection, India.
Acquired from Sarjan Art Gallery.

A founder member of the Baroda Group, Bendre made a name for himself as a landscape artist. He combined innovative techniques, using a combination of geometric shapes and patterns in his compositions to give his landscapes a distinctive and modern feel that were academic and impressionist in style. In the present work for example, we can clearly see the triangle on the bottom left of the composition which acts as a base upon which he has constructed the rest of the painting.

This work depicts four figures, two walking with parasols to the bottom right, one standing in the centre and one entering a hut on the upper left. There is an element of movement that is presented as our gaze shifts from the bottom right of the work to the upper left. The painting reveals itself in numerous layers, and we gradually 'walk' to each layer as the painting unfolds before us. There is an element of tranquillity and serenity which emanates from this work.

The style of this work is reminiscent of that of Nandalal Bose, Ram Kinker Baij and Binode Behari Mukherjee, with the wash technique and those that were propagated at Santineketan in the 1940s. This work is particularly important as it predates the style of 'pointillism' that he would come to be most well-known and celebrated for.

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Please note that the medium is oil and acrylic on paper.

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