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lot 4

lot 4

Anjolie Ela Menon

Untitled (Head of a Boy)

oil on masonite
12.75 x 11.75 (32 x 30.2 cm.)

Winning Bid: $ 12,000

Estimate: US$ 10,000 - 15,000

Lot Closed

Lot Details

Signed 'Anjolie Ela Menon' (upper right)
Bearing exhibition label 'Anjolie Ela Menon (b. 1940) / Ref: VAG 104 Head of a Boy / Oil on masonite / 12 x 11 3/4 in. (30.5 x 29.8 cm.)' (on the reverse)

PROVENANCE
Christie's / Sale 5798 / Lot 192 / Contemporary Indian Art / Live Auction / London, United Kingdom / 4 June 1997
Private collection, London
Sothebys / Sale L22500 / Lot 56 / Modern and Contemporary South Asian Auction / London, United Kingdom / 25 October 2022
Private collection, Dubai

Anjolie Ela Menon

(b. 1940)
Born in West Bengal, Menon received her art education at the Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai and later at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris. Some of her solo shows include those held at the Institute of Contemporary Indian Art, Mumbai, in 2013; Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi in 2010, 2003, 2002 and 1996; Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi in 2007; Gallery Arts India West, Palo Alto in 2006 and 2005; and at The Gallery, New York in 1989. Retrospectives of her work have been held at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai in 2002, and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in 1988. She has also participated in the Paris Biennal, 1980, and the international Triennale of the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 1975, 71 and 68. Some of the group exhibitions featuring her work include those held by Gallery Threshold, New Delhi, in 2009-10 and 2008; Aicon Gallery, New York, 2009; Gallery Arts India, New York, in 2005; Saffronart and Apparao Galleries, Los Angeles in 2001; and Saffronart, Hong Kong, in 2001. She was given the Dayawati Modi Award in 2013 and in 2000 the Government of India awarded her the Padma Shri. Menon lives and works in New Delhi.