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PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY COLLECTION OF
NANDALAL BOSE

NANDALAL BOSE

1882?–?1966

Fisherman on the Shore;
Fishermen in a Boat

Ink on card
1947; 1945
3? × 5½ in. (8.6 × 13.8 cm.);
3? × 5½ in. (8.6 × 14 cm.) (2)
Signed and dated ‘Nanda / 11 / 11 / 1947’ in Bengali
centre left and further inscribed in Bengali on reverse;
dated ‘1945’ in Bengali and further inscribed in Bengali
on reverse

??3,00,000?–?5,00,000

NATIONAL ART TREASURE – NON-EXPORTABLE ITEM
(Please refer to the Terms and Conditions of Sale
at the back of the catalogue)

PROVENANCE:
From the collection of Nandalal Bose’s eldest daughter,
Gouri Bhanja, nee Bose and thence by descent.

‘Drawing was to Nandalal the basis of good art. He made it his
practise to sketch and draw as regularly as a musician practices an
instrument… He sketched whenever he travelled. The greater part of
these drawings or sketches are on postcards; they are done either
with a pen or a brush and are basically linear; the aim was simply
to capture the subject and the moment briefly to delineate form,
to describe it and give it life. The drawings on postcards have a
spontaneity and brevity not seen in more formal works. They exist as
evidence of the artist’s unceasing desire to master visual data.’

(Jaya Appasamy, ‘Nandalal – Master Draughtsman’, Nandalal Bose Centenary Exhibition,
exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, pp.?28–29)

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