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Jehangir Sabavala
(1922 - 2011)

Down To A Sunless Sea



The present lot was painted in 1962, which saw the culmination of the Cubist idiom that Sabavala had explored for a decade since his return from Paris. Titled Down To A Sunless Sea, Sabavala borrows a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem Kubla Khan. The poem, conceived by Coleridge supposedly in an opium-induced dream, describes the landscape of Xanadu, the capital city in the kingdom of Kublai Khan, a great Mongolian...



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  Lot 12 of 78  

EVENING SALE | MUMBAI, LIVE
16 FEBRUARY 2017

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Winning Bid
Rs 1,14,00,000
$172,727

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Jehangir Sabavala
Down To A Sunless Sea

Signed and dated 'Sabavala 62' (lower left) and 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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