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A SELF PORTRAIT; A PORTRAIT OF RANI GOGGI DEVI BIRLA
BY ATUL BOSE (1898-1977), INDIA, CIRCA 1940
Pencil on paper, the artist depicted standing holding a painting brush in his right hand a palette in his left, inscribed in pencil lower left ‘ The picture was(?) / at the artist’; Rani Birla depicted with her head covered and wearing an impressive head ornament (borla)
12¾ x 8⅛in. (32.5 x 20.5cm.); 15⅛ x 10¼in. (38.5 x 26cm.)

Provenance:
Sotheby's London, 8 June 2000, lot 195 (one)

Literature:
P. Mitter, The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-garde 1922-1947, 2007, pg. 144 (portrait of Rani Goggi Devi Birla).

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