Lot Essay
For a similar painting by the artist see lot 113 sold in these rooms on 24th April 1990.
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Horse and rider
signed by Jamini Roy
Bengal, 1940-50
gouache on thick paper, a stylized depiction of a black horse with decorative trappings and its rider wearing green, pink and blue tunic and carrying a bow and arrow, on dark pink ground, framed, 19¼ x 21¼in.(48.9 x 54cm.), and RABINDRANATH TOGORE WITH MAHATMA GANDHI, initialled by Jamini Roy, Bengal, 1930-40, oil on canvas, seen from behind in an interior the two men lean forward to study a document, Gandhi reaching out an arm to the other, (very minor crackling), framed, 15 x 10¾in. (38.1 x 27.4cm.) (2)
signed by Jamini Roy
Bengal, 1940-50
gouache on thick paper, a stylized depiction of a black horse with decorative trappings and its rider wearing green, pink and blue tunic and carrying a bow and arrow, on dark pink ground, framed, 19¼ x 21¼in.(48.9 x 54cm.), and RABINDRANATH TOGORE WITH MAHATMA GANDHI, initialled by Jamini Roy, Bengal, 1930-40, oil on canvas, seen from behind in an interior the two men lean forward to study a document, Gandhi reaching out an arm to the other, (very minor crackling), framed, 15 x 10¾in. (38.1 x 27.4cm.) (2)