Lot n° 2
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B. PRABHA (India, 1933-2001) - Lot 2
B. PRABHA (India, 1933-2001)
Mother carrying her child
Oil on canvas
Signed upper right
Dim. 50.5 x 50.5 cm
Framed
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B. Prabha (1933-2001) was an Indian artist best known for her oil paintings of slender, melancholy figures of rural women in colorful saris. In an India still largely closed to women artists, she made a strong impact on the artistic landscape, first in India, then internationally.
A graduate of the Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay, Prabha soon attracted the interest of major collectors, including Homi J. Bhabha, who acquired three of her paintings for the Tata Institute (TIFR) collection. His work has been shown in exhibitions both in India and abroad, including important solo exhibitions at the Kumar Gallery in Delhi (between 1958 and 1963).
Among the institutions preserving her work are the National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi) and the renowned Air India Art Collection, to which she was the first to contribute as early as 1956. In 1962-63, she took part in a competition for a major TIFR commission, alongside artists such as M.F. Husain.
True to Amrita Sher-Gil's humanist heritage, Prabha dedicated her work to making visible the silent lives of rural Indian women, expressing the harshness of their daily lives. "I have yet to see a happy woman", she used to say.
Since her death in 2001, her work has continued to be celebrated, notably through exhibitions such as Winter Moderns at New York's Aicon Gallery (2008).
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