Lot 52
Lot 52
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, ARIZONA
NIKHIL BISWAS (1930-1966)

Untitled (Benares)

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    NIKHIL BISWAS (1930-1966)

    Untitled (Benares)

    Price Realised USD 3,000
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    NIKHIL BISWAS (1930-1966)
    Untitled (Benares)
    signed 'Nikhil' and dated indistinctly (lower right)
    gouache on paper
    60.3 x 46.4 cm. (233⁄4 x 181⁄4 in.)

    Provenance
    Acquired by James Waite Mahoney while he was posted as Chief Political Officer in the US Consulate in Calcutta, circa. early 1960s
    Thence by descent
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    A founding member of the Calcutta Group of Painters and The Society of Contemporary Artists -- also based in Calcutta, the city of his birth -- Nikhil Biswas received international acclaim as an artist, but struggled to make a secure living from his work, supplementing his income by working as an art teacher and eventually dying impoverished at the age of 36.
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