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Jehangir Sabavala
(1922 - 2011)

Down To A Sunless Sea



Titled Down To A Sunless Sea, Sabavala borrows a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem Kubla Khan.

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with...



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  Lot 32 of 81  

EVENING SALE | NEW DELHI, LIVE
21 SEPTEMBER 2017

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Rs 96,00,000
$152,381

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Jehangir Sabavala
Down To A Sunless Sea

Signed and dated 'Sabavala 62' (lower left); inscribed ''Down to a sunless sea'/ By Jehangir Sabavala/ B'bay 1962' (on the reverse)
1962
Oil on canvas
39.25 x 29.25 in (100 x 74 cm)

PROVENANCE:
Private Collection, USA
Private Collection, UK

Category: Painting
Style: Landscape


 









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