Chemould Prescott Road opens an exhibition of works by one of India s greatest abstractionist painters
Mehlli Gobhai, Untitled, 2010 - 2012. Mixed media on constructed canvasse, 34 x 28 x 4 in. 86.4 x 71.1 x 10.2 cm.
MUMBAI
.-Chemould Prescott Road announces its new exhibition, Mehlli Gobhai: Epiphanies, co-curated by Ranjit Hoskote and Nancy Adajania. It opened on Tuesday: 27th July 2021. The show presents a series of memorable breakthrough moments in the nearly 70-year-long career of Mehlli Gobhai (1931-2018), one of Indias greatest abstractionist painters.
Mehlli Gobhai: Epiphanies is an edited extract of Dont Ask Me about Colour, the large-scale retrospective of Gobhais work that Hoskote and Adajania had co-curated at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, early last year. The retrospective was cut short by the Covid lockdown, depriving viewers of an opportunity to immerse themselves in Gobhais art, and to discover his New York phase, which was exhi
Indian abstractionist Mehlli Gobhai s art goes on view
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Prinseps Modern Art Auction is set to go live on 6 July
Lot 22, Famine by Gobardhan Ash, 1943.
MUMBAI
.-Prinseps are set to host their upcoming Modern Art Auction on 6 July at 7pm. The auction brings together a selection of highly researched and documented artworks by renowned modernists including M.F Husain, Manjit Bawa, Bhupen Khakhar, Prabhakar Barwe and Bikash Bhattacherjee amongst others.
The auction is led by Manjit Bawas iconic painting, Lady with Bird, 1999 (Lot 21, estimate INR 1,50,00,000 - 2,50,00,000). The painting depicts a simple figure of a woman holding a bird and is remarkable for its use of bright pastel colors and the interplay between the figures limbs, anatomy and space. The painting is an exemplary example of an artist whose work is rarely seen at auction.