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Damayanti Chowla (India, 1920-2004)
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Laxman Shreshtha (India, born 1939) Oil on canvas
Untitled Signed and dated 1969 lower right
Oil on canvas 27 1/4 x 30 in. (69.2 x 76 cm)
Artist’s name inscribed verso $1,000 - 1,500
28 3/8 x 40 in. (72 x 101.5 cm)
$3,000 - 5,000 “[Chowla’s] best works are those that show a scatter of vertical forms, like pine trees in a snow-
Provenance: storm. Her capacity to reduce the huge trees to mere straws in the wind will remain her main
Private Collection, Los Angeles message to the future. She is the artist who has portrayed ‘the lightness of being’ at its best,
Acquired in New Delhi in the 1970s especially in her studies of trees.” (Suneet Chopra, “Financial Times”, August 22, 2004.)

130 | Bonhams Provenance:
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Acquired by the present owner’s parents in India in late 1960s