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b. 08 Oct 1926, Faridpur, Undivided India | Present-day Bangladesh
d. 12 Mar 2011
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Biren De was born in 1926 in Faridpur, Undivided India | Present-day Bangladesh.
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In 2001, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Portrait of Most Reverend Monsignor Joseph Fernandes - Archbishop of Delhi, 1954. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 1995, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Woman with a Vase, 1956. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 2005, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Mother, 1956. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
biren-de · 1957 · Oil on canvas · Widows
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In 1999, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Widows, 1957. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
Stylized figures in a compressed space. The figures and the environment are bound together by a strong grid of black lines, the colours, which are filled in are militant and cannot be ignored. They are either somber or luminous; the figures are sharply modeled and have a peg like three-dimensionality. Each part of the figures is distinct and to a certain degree a symbol of itself, yet it is united and belongs to a whole.
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In 2012, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Figures, 1957. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 2001, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Moon and the Fish, 1958. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 2012, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled, 1959. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
biren-de · 1963 · Oil on canvas · Untitled
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In 2006, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled, 1963. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
By now the shapes which were first definite and then indefinite and broad became reduced to two major forms. Some curved and U-like – which may be thought of as feminine and others straight and wedge like or masculine. These symbols were small and were arranged or moved or floated within the space of the frame. The ground was coloured more softly and the colours were textured. Biren also began to use impasto and the thickness or thinness of the paint formed a subsidiary interest…A new phase had begun and becomes consolidated about 1963…The colour is vibrant and rich with large areas of black or ‘dark’ and with occasional areas of purple or green…Biren’s recent work seeks the unity of these and other fundamental shapes. They are not new, for it is the ancient circle and square, the U and the cylinder that are here. But the forms are confronted or fitted or involved in a unique way.
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In 2008, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of The Movement, 1967. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 2022, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled, 1970. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 2024, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled, 1972. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 2018, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of September '73, 1973. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 2004, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of April '74, 1974. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 2024, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of August '74, 1974. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 2006, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled, 1983. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 2001, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Sketchbook, 1985. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 2005, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of August' 88, 1988. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 1997, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of October '91, 1991. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 2004, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of May '91, 1991. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 2002, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of March '94, 1994. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
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In 2005, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Light Ascending (May '97), 1997. This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the work and its reception within the broader art world.
Featured on Auction Catalogue Cover
In 2009, an artwork by Biren De was featured on the cover of Osians: Select Masterpieces of Indian Modern & Contemporary Art (June 2009, New York), marking a documented highlight in the artist's public and auction market visibility.
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