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PROPERTY FROM THE FAMILY COLLECTION OF
NANDALAL BOSE

   RABINDRANATH TAGORE                                       ‘We who have traded in lyrics
                                                             should know that these will not
    1861?–?1941                                              find acceptance in another time.
                                                             This is inevitable. So I often think
   Bird                                                      that painting has a deathless
                                                             quality.’ – Rabindranath Tagore
    Ink on brown paper
    12¼ × 9¾ in. (31 × 24.6 cm.)                             (‘Rabindranath Tagore: Poet and Painter’,
                                                             www.vam.ac.uk, Rabindranath Tagore: Poet
   ??3,00,000?–?5,00,000                                     and Painter, online exhibition catalogue,
                                                             Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2011)
    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.

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