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Jehangir Sabavala
(1922 - 2011)

Nocturnal Flight



“Painting for me grows more personalised, more difficult. Movements, styles, the topical moments, all lose out to the attempt to reach deeper levels of interpretation.”
- JEHANGIR SABAVALA

Jehangir Sabavala, who began his career in the late 1940s, chose not to align himself with any particular artistic movement but was rather guided by an inner search for transformation and a pursuit of the sublime. Art critic S V Vasudev once...



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  Lot 63 of 130  

SUMMER ONLINE AUCTION
26-27 JUNE 2024

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Winning Bid
Rs 3,12,00,000
$375,904

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Jehangir Sabavala
Nocturnal Flight

Signed and dated 'Sabavala '98' (lower left)
1998
Oil on canvas
39.5 x 59.75 in (100.5 x 151.5 cm)

PROVENANCE
Acquired from the artist's family
Property from an Important Private Collection, Mumbai

PUBLISHED
Ranjit Hoskote, The Crucible of Painting: The Art of Jehangir Sabavala, Mumbai: Eminence Designs Pvt Ltd, 2005, p. 192 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Abstract


 









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