Jehangir Sabavala
(1922 - 2011)
Still Life with Apples
"My art [is] a mixture of academic, impressionist and cubist texture, form and colour... And with each step I have evolved a new experience. But if I look back, I find I have carried all the elements forward." - JEHANGIR SABAVALA Lots 8 and 9 are rare early works by Jehangir Sabavala, likely painted when he was studying at the Acadmie Andr Lhote in Paris. Having spent over ten years as a student at art schools in Europe and...
"My art [is] a mixture of academic, impressionist and cubist texture, form and colour... And with each step I have evolved a new experience. But if I look back, I find I have carried all the elements forward." - JEHANGIR SABAVALA Lots 8 and 9 are rare early works by Jehangir Sabavala, likely painted when he was studying at the Acadmie Andr Lhote in Paris. Having spent over ten years as a student at art schools in Europe and India, Sabavala had mastered the art of the still life painting. Lot 8 depicts a humble assortment comprising a jug, a bottle of wine, a few apples layered on a red tablecloth. The artist once said that his process involved a "great deal of intellectualising: the analysis of planes, the passages of light. I became more sure of how I wanted my paintings fractured and adopted a definite form, a daring, highpitched and highkeyed palette." (Artist quoted in Ranjit Hoskote, The Crucible of Painting: The Art of Jehangir Sabavala, Mumbai: Eminence Designs Pvt. Ltd., 2005, p. 63)
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8
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40
THE CURATED AUCTION SERIES
19-20 APRIL 2021
Estimate
Rs 1,50,00,000 - 2,00,00,000
$208,335 - 277,780
Winning Bid
Rs 1,81,44,000
$252,000
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
ARTWORK DETAILS
Jehangir Sabavala
Still Life with Apples
Signed 'Sabavala' (lower left)
1949
Oil on canvas
23.75 x 32 in (60.6 x 81.3 cm)
PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist by Ms. Perin Dalal Thence by descent Distinguished Parsi Family Collection, Mumbai Christie's, London, 25 May 2017, lot 42
EXHIBITEDJehangir Sabavala , Bombay: Taj Mahal Hotel, 1951 PUBLISHED Ranjit Hoskote ed., Pilgrim, Exile, Sorcerer: The Painterly Evolution of Jehangir Sabavala , Mumbai: Eminence Designs Pvt. Ltd., 1998, p. 158 (illustrated)
Category: Painting
Style: Still Life
ARTWORK SIZE:
Height of Figure: 6'