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KRISHNA SHAMRAO KULKARNI | Untitled (Bull and Figures)
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June 10, 02:40 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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KRISHNA SHAMRAO KULKARNI
1916 - 1994
Untitled (Bull and Figures)
Oil on canvas
Signed 'KS Kulkarni' lower right and inscribed 'No 23 / From RAVI Kumar (artist) / Hand Painted Painting / 11 Sundar Nagar / NEW DELHI (INDIA)' on reverse
66.4 x 101.6 cm. (26 ⅛ x 40 in.)
Acquired by Ravi Kumar of Kumar Gallery, New Delhi, 1959
Thence by descent
Along with his contemporaries, K. S. Kulkarni was inspired by primitive and folk art. Although his subject matter is derived from traditional subjects, his works contain a modernist sensibility, painted in a cubist, semi-abstract manner, rendered with crisp lines over a flat pictorial surface.