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Sailoz Mookherjea
(1907 - 1960)

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Sailoz Mookherjea is regarded as one of India's earliest modern painters, and was featured, in 1979, on a list of Nine Indian Master Artists by the Archaeological Survey of India. Born in 1907 in Kolkata, Mookherjea received his diploma in Fine Arts from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta, in 1932. He then taught at Delhi Polytechnic, and served as Art Director at the Imperial Tobacco Company before moving to Paris in...



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  Lot 49 of 67  

EVENING SALE | NEW DELHI, LIVE
12 SEPTEMBER 2019

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Winning Bid
Rs 20,40,000
$28,732

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Sailoz Mookherjea
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Signed 'Sailoz' (upper left); bearing Dhoomimal Art Centre label (on the reverse)
Oil on canvas
19.75 x 28.25 in (49.9 x 71.7 cm)

NON-EXPORTABLE NATIONAL ART TREASURE

PROVENANCE
Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi

EXHIBITED
Revisiting Sailoz Mookherjea, New Delhi: Dhoomimal Art Centre, 28 October - 30 November 2017

PUBLISHED
Partha Chatterjee, Samit Das et al., Revisiting Sailoz Mookherjea, New Delhi: Dhoomimal Art Centre, 2017, pp. 100-101 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Landscape


 









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