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    Twentieth Century Indian Art

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    5 October 1999

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    • Hemendranath Mazumdar (1894-19
    Lot 45

    Hemendranath Mazumdar (1894-1948)

    Lady in Blue and Gold Sari

    Price realised

    GBP 25,300

    Estimate

    GBP 12,000 - GBP 18,000

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    Hemendranath Mazumdar (1894-1948)
    Lady in Blue and Gold Sari
    signed 'H. Mazumdar' (lower right)
    oil on board
    48 x 26 in. (121.9 x 66 cm.)

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    Lot Essay

    Hemendranath Mazumdar resisted the 'Indianising' trends of the Bengal School to become a successful academic painter. The style of his paintings followed in the tradition of Ravi Varma, and covered the same range of religious and mythological themes, focusing mainly on sensual studies of women.
    These images of women in various stages of undress would have verged on the pornographic; yet through their suggested identities as wives and mothers, ideal feminine models, they presented a respectable veneer and came to occupy a 'legitimate' area of middle class taste.

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