Pyne, Ganesh (Artist). The Curator, 1968 | Painting | 00356908
Estimates
₹4,000,000 - 6,000,000
$48,200 - 72,300
Winning Bid
₹5,376,000
$64,770
Artwork Square Inch Rate (S.I.R)
57951.21
Lot Ratio | Hammer Price / Lower Estimate
1.34
Ganesh Pyne | 11 Jun 1937 – 12 Mar 2013
ArtistGanesh Pyne
TitleThe Curator
MediumInk wash on paper
Date1968
Size7.48 x 12.40 in (19.00 x 31.50 cm)
Lot Number29
Auction HouseDeRivaz & Ives
Venue / LocationOnline
Date of Auction09 December 2023
Type of AuctionOnline
Provenance
Formerly acquired from Bijay Pyne, brother of the artist; later purchased by New Delhi-based collection from Astaguru's online auction titled 'Collectors Choice Modern Indian Art', 25th June 2021 (Lot 58)
Literary Reference
"What gives Pyne’s work a distinctiveness is the artist’s involvement with his art. His life, his world, indeed his whole being is focused on this act of creation. He is most at home with his own inner world of darkness and light from which emerges the strange forms…His visual imagination like that o..."
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