Madhvi Parekh
(1942)
The Boy
Born in Sanjaya, a village in Gujarat, Madhvi Parekh reflects her rural influences in her stylized folk art.
Married to Manu Parekh, an artist from J.J.School of Art, Madhvi gained much of her exposure to art and inspiration for her paintings, from him. She explored the possibility of depicting her childhood memories through her paintings, where images of fantasy and early days are woven into her entire work, which lend it a surreal,...
Born in Sanjaya, a village in Gujarat, Madhvi Parekh reflects her rural influences in her stylized folk art.
Married to Manu Parekh, an artist from J.J.School of Art, Madhvi gained much of her exposure to art and inspiration for her paintings, from him. She explored the possibility of depicting her childhood memories through her paintings, where images of fantasy and early days are woven into her entire work, which lend it a surreal, dreamlike quality.
Her subjects have a freshness and spontaneity to them; and although her themes always revolve around images that affect her; her compositions are flexible, and all her paintings have a strong sense of design.
There is an element of emancipation in the majority of Madhvi's works, where man is depicted free from the tyranny of mechanical time.
Madhvi's work has its inspiration in rural India, while her style is contemporary; influenced by artists such as Paul Klee and Clemente.
She has been exhibiting her work since 1972, all over the world and has more close to a hundred solo and group shows to her credit.
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WINTER ONLINE AUCTION
17-18 DECEMBER 2024
Estimate
Rs 15,00,000 - 20,00,000
$17,860 - 23,810
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Rs 15,60,000
$18,571
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ARTWORK DETAILS
Madhvi Parekh
The Boy
Signed in Devnagari and dated '95' (lower centre); inscribed and dated 'The boy/ 1995' (on the reverse)
1995
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 in (61 x 76 cm)
PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist Private Collection, New Delhi
EXHIBITEDPrimitivism and Modern Indian Art , Mumbai: DAG, 15 November 2019 - 5 February 2020; New York: DAG, 15 March 2020 - 31 March 2021Indian Blue: From Realism to Abstraction , New Delhi: DAG, 10 October – 13 December 2021 PUBLISHED Kishore Singh ed., Giles Tillotson, Primitivism and Modern Indian Art , New Delhi: DAG, 2019, p. 408 (illustrated)Indian Blue: From Realism to Abstraction , New Delhi: DAG, 2021, p. 172 (illustrated)
Category: Painting
Style: Abstract
ARTWORK SIZE:
Height of Figure: 6'