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Krishen Khanna
Pieta


- - “From the late 1960’s Khanna engaged in a series of paintings on Christ that start with The Last Supper, and Garden at Gethsemane and gradually culminate in Betrayal, Christ’s Descent from the Cross, Pieta and Emmaus. The series gains significance not only because of its appearance during the emergency – a period of midnight arrests, censorship of the press and a repressive state machinery – but because of the kinship it shares with Khanna’s othe
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KRISHEN KHANNA: A RETROSPECTIVE

ARTWORK DETAILS

  • Krishen Khanna
  • Pieta
  • 2006
  • Oil  on  canvas
  • 71.5 x 51.5 in (181.6 x 130.8 cm)
  • From a Private Collection
  • EXHIBITED:
    Krishen Khanna, Saffronart in association with Osborne Samuel and Berkeley Sqaure Gallery, Royal Academy of Art, London, 2007

    PUBLISHED:
    Krishen Khanna - Images in My Time, Norbert Lynton, Gayatri Sinha, Ranjit Hoskote, Marilyn Rushton and Tanuj Berry, Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, 2007
  • Category: Painting
    Style: Figurative



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