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ANOTHER PROPERTY
KRISHEN KHANNA
VASUDEV S. GAITONDE
b.?1925
1924?–?2001
Emmaus
Untitled
Charcoal on paper
Ink on paper 1979
1974 29¾ × 21? in. (75.5 × 55 cm.)
10 × 9? in. (25.4 × 23.1 cm.)
Signed in Devanagari and dated ‘8.12.1974 / 18.12.1974’ Signed, dated and inscribed ‘Emmaus / KKhanna / 79’
lower right lower left

??8,00,000?–12,00,000 ??4,00,000?–?6,00,000

$ 11,940?–17,910 $ 5,970?–?8,955

‘He could be a very fine portrait painter if he wanted to Christian imagery has fascinated Krishen Khanna
be. He could draw like an angel but he did not think that it throughout his painterly career. An early source of
was his métier.’ (Krishen Khanna interviewed by Meera inspiration was a conversation with his father while
Menezes, reproduced in Meera Menezes, Vasudeo Santu driving up to the hill station of Simla. Along the way, they
Gaitonde: Sonata of Solitude, New Delhi, 2016, p.?57) stopped at a dhaba for tea when Kahan Chand remarked

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