LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

67.83 in. (172.30 cm.) (height) by 87.32 in. (221.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed, dated, titled and inscribed 'NALINI MALANI / LOVE, DECEPTION & INTRIGUE- 1985-86 / 68" X 88" / N.Malani' on reverse

Exhibited:

Atlanta, Georgia, Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest, March - May, 2011. The College of New Jersey, October - December 2012. New York, Rubin Museum of Art, Modernist Art from India: The Body Unbound, November 2011- April 2012

Literature:

G. Kapur, When was Modernism, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2000, illustration pl. 23, p. 25. R. Brown, Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest, Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010, illustration p. 109 - 111

Provenance:

Sotheby's New York, 19 September 2006, lot 145