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Ram Kumar

Autumn Landscape

Collectors Choice19 Jun - 20 Jun, 2023

Medium:Oil on canvas

Year:Circa 1950
Size:30 x 40 in

Estimate

₹ 60,00,000 - ₹ 80,00,000

Sold for

₹ 72,95,385

Inclusive of margin

Property from a private collection based in Mumbai.

About the Artist

Ram Kumar

Ram Kumar, like many of his confreres among the first generation of post-colonial Indian artists - including such figures as F N Souza, M F Husain, Paritosh Sen, Jehangir Sabavala, Krishen Khanna, S H Raza and Akbar Padamsee - combined an internationalist desire with the need to belong emphatically to their homeland In its internationalist mood, this generation looked to the early 20th-century modernisms of Paris, London and Vienna for inspiration; its need to belong prompted an interest in the construction of a viable ‘Indian’ aesthetic that bore a dynamic relationship to an Indian identity With Ram Kumar, this quest for an indigenist tenor has not meant a superficial inventory of ‘native’ motifs offered as evidence of a static and essentialist Indian identity Instead,... Read More

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