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lot 21

lot 21

Jogen Chowdhury

Face of a Man

mixed media on paper
9.75 x 7.75 in. (25 x 20 cm.)
painted in 2012

Winning Bid: $ 16,000

Estimate: US$ 7,000 - 10,000

Lot Closed

Lot Details

Signed and dated in English 'Jogen 2012' and initialed in Bengali (lower edge)

PROVENANCE
Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
Private collection, Dubai
Artiana / Sale 1902 / Lot 4 / South Asian Art - Modern and Contemporary / Dubai / 13 - 17 June 2019
Private collection, Dubai

LOT ESSAY
"My primary subject has been the human being. I did several faces of different characters and different kinds of people. The sheer range of characters, temperament, and manners that I observed in the people that I saw fascinated me. I portrayed them in an essentially personal perspective. In my representation and characterization of these people, I crossed the bounds of realistic representation and let imagination took over." (Jogen Chowdhury, Enigmatic Visions, Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan 2005, p.26)

In Jogen's work, great pictorial values were often achieved from necessary and spontaneous reconstruction and distortion of the anatomy. This became part of his signature since the very beginning of his career.

Jogen Chowdhury

(b. 1939)
Born in 1939 in erstwhile Bengal, now Bangladesh, Jogen Chowdhury studied at Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata, the Studio Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. His most recent solo exhibitions include ‘Jogen Chowdhury: Formative to Recent’, Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata, in 2014; ‘Lignes de Meditation’, Gallery Veda, Chennai, in 2012-13; ‘A Calligraphy of Touch and Gaze’ by Kalakriti Art Gallery at ICIA, Mumbai, in 2008; Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, in 2007; the Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata, in 2006; and Bose Pacia, New York, in 2002. Chowdhury’s works have been exhibited in several group shows including ‘Ideas of the Sublime’, presented by Vadehra Art Gallery at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, in 2013; ‘Figure / Landscape: Part Two’, Aicon Gallery, London, in 2010-11; ‘Dali’s Elephant’, Aicon Gallery, London, ‘Paper Trails’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, ‘Pretty Ugly’, Bose Pacia, Kolkata, ‘Image and symbol: Painters Perception’, Aakrit Art Gallery, Kolkata, in 2010; ‘Modern Continuous’, Galerie 88, Kolkata, in 2009; ‘Inverting, Inventing, Traditions’, Grosvenor Vadehra, London, in 2007; Drawing Show an Act of Art II’, Priyasri Art Gallery, Mumbai, in 2006; those by Saffronart and Pundole Art Gallery, New York, in 2002 and 2001; the ‘Festival of India’ Geneva, in 1989; the II Havana Biennale, in 1986; and the Sao Paulo Biennale, in 1979. He was awarded the Kalidas Samman by the Madhya Pradesh State Government in 2001, the Shiromani Award, Kolkata, in 1997, and the Prix le France de la Jeune Peinture in 1966. The artist lives and works in Shantiniketan, West Bengal.